Example sentences of "[verb] her from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 2 | ( The truth is I do n't want to forgive her , because it will free her from the grappling irons I have on her . |
| 3 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 4 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 5 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 6 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 7 | She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes . |
| 8 | If Marc was the ogre guarding the crock of gold , then Peter had to be cast as the white knight , saving her from the dreaded dragon ! |
| 9 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 10 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 11 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 12 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 13 | Would that remove her from the ordinary people ? |
| 14 | Only then , as the brilliant colour swam into her face , was Lindsey aware of Niall , shielding her from the other man 's gaze , gaining her the precious seconds she needed to recover . |
| 15 | Surprisingly light and nimble , he jumped out and extended a hand to help her from the rocking boat . |
| 16 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 17 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 18 | If Flavia 's passion and occasional petulance in the second book diminish her from the dedicated Elphberg to a woman of lesser breed , she becomes more individual , a more positive key to the course of a story which , as compelling as The Prisoner of Zenda in its chases and escapes , its dark streets and darker forests , and as strongly tied by the theme of honour , is subtly more human than its predecessor . |
| 19 | He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally . |
| 20 | In the former an all-female host of angels welcomes the birth of a new soul , a young girl , into its midst — uplifting her from the bottom foreground into the centre of the picture . |
| 21 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 22 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 23 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 24 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 25 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 26 | It cost me money though , I originally got her from a tutoring agency . |
| 27 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 28 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 29 | Her alarm clock , a replica of an old-fashioned instrument purchased from Habitat , with an analogue dial and a little brass bell on the top , rouses her from a deep sleep at 7.30 . |
| 30 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |