Example sentences of "[verb] from her [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spinach was in her mouth when a terrible sound came from her throat the gaping croak of nausea . |
| 2 | Symkyn 's daughter , Malyne , physically inherits from her father a characteristic " " kamus ( pug ) nose " " ( 3934 and 3974 ) , while the main feature of her role in this fabliau , to be " " swyved " " by one of the clerks , mirrors the extra-marital " swyving " by which her mother was conceived . |
| 3 | She inherited from her brother a methodical and intelligent Treasurer , the Marquis of Winchester ; and she also took over the conclusions of committees which had been investigating the Crown 's finances under Edward VI . |
| 4 | Ten years after the death of Jean de Florette his 18-year-old daughter Manon still haunts the hills overlooking the farm stolen from her father the canny Soubeyran ( Montand ) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin ( Auteuil ) . |
| 5 | Inanna had inherited from her mother a particular form of behaviour to use when she was anxious or did n't want to do something . |
| 6 | Gloria took from her bag a little blanket made of coloured squares that a long-ago lady in a shelter had knitted for Baby before he was born . |
| 7 | Claire Easterbrook , Senior Scientific Officer in the Biology Department and , with Lorrimer 's death , the senior biologist , had taken from her briefcase a scientific paper she had prepared on recent advances in blood grouping and settled down to revise it with as little apparent concern as if murder at Hoggatt 's were a routine inconvenience for which , prudently , she was always provided . |