Example sentences of "[conj] she [was/were] [verb] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
| 2 | She took on a black lad and because she did that she was ostracised from the rest of the community . |
| 3 | The prosecution say that she was plucked from the bridge by Hagans , who 'd lain in wait for the right victim and then pounced . |
| 4 | It seemed to Culley that she was retreating from the sound of his voice . |
| 5 | It was n't until she was stumbling from the room that she saw her mother . |
| 6 | One of the men had a key and she was moved from the car into an empty , damp and very cold house . ’ |
| 7 | Pins and needles tingled in her fingers and toes , creeping along her limbs until she felt as if she were disconnected from the world . |
| 8 | Actually , Ruby was considering how well publicized her intervention in the case would be if she were to work from the Post newsroom . |
| 9 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |
| 10 | That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else . |
| 11 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 12 | Her heart had failed and she had n't regained consciousness since she was carried from the drawing room . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was planning to weaken her before she was released from the dungeon . |
| 14 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 15 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 16 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |
| 17 | The girl , thought to be aged about five , had stopped breathing when she was pulled from the water on the South Bank near the old GLC build-ing steps . |
| 18 | She waved and smiled at relatives as she was led from the dock to start her sentence . |