Example sentences of "her [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 2 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 3 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |
| 4 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 5 | When she stopped speaking his feeling of animosity towards her seeped from him , and the pity that he always felt for her again rose to the surface and for a moment he himself knew the extent of her frustration and the reason behind her furious tantrums when she had known his uncle was going to marry again . |
| 6 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |
| 7 | Maureen had met her returning from the photographers ' room , discovered the keys and taken them . |
| 8 | Lubor must have seen her returning from his office window , for he was there when she neared the outside door , and , never one to miss an opportunity , ‘ About tomorrow ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | As they approach the valley overlooked by the Mountain of God , he asks her to accept from him the gift of a necklace . |
| 10 | And we let her know from the start that we trusted her . |
| 11 | Her career so far has been in publishing , and , following the birth of her son James in 1982 , this has enabled her to work from home . |
| 12 | Estimates of the numbers of people who turned out to greet her ranged from 1,500 to 30,000 , but even this higher figure was regarded as a small crowd by Manila standards . |
| 13 | Photographer Melanie Cox makes her living from art portraiture . |
| 14 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 15 | A Pit Bull Terrier has been sentenced to death by magistrates , because her owner loosened her muzzle to allow her to drink from a puddle in the street . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , if you can swallow it , have some , ’ he said , holding the bucket for her to drink from . |
| 17 | Helping her to progress from the infant she was to the adult she will become is , I believe , the hardest task of parenting . |
| 18 | Living in Manchester would allow her to escape from Yuppified Clapham . |
| 19 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 20 | of her calling from the blue like this , |
| 21 | The extent to which a person feels threatened by other people having information about him or her varies from one person to another . |
| 22 | Tess had her mother 's energy and the energy of her youth to help her recover from her experience . |
| 23 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 24 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 25 | His claim to have loved Clare Mallender and to have had her stolen from him somehow lacked conviction and , anyway , his conquest of Virginia Dysart could be said to have evened the score . |
| 26 | After three weeks of perch work I decided it was time to start training her to fly from other locations . |
| 27 | Some ingratitude within her shrank from Aunt Tossie 's possessive sympathy and understanding . |
| 28 | Recycling of waste was essential and it was the housewives ' job another job for her to salvage from her home such things as paper , bones , tin cans , old gramophone records , photographs and negatives , jam jars , rubber and rags . |
| 29 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 30 | He watched her go from the room and felt an urge to drag her back . |