Example sentences of "from her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Maria Filippa heard Davide laugh , she twisted up from her stricken position and her eyes fixed on him with hatred , ‘ You 're laughing , are you ? |
| 2 | Becoming embarrassingly aware of the awful smell emanating from her sodden clothing , she closed her eyes in defeat . |
| 3 | She was poised now over her garden and could see the whole of it , laid out like a little world , from her great height . |
| 4 | Mrs Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her . |
| 5 | ‘ New scum , I suppose , ’ Hortensia said to them , looking down from her great height . |
| 6 | Working from her small shop in Lupin Street she is happy to feature catkins and pussywillows in her innovative designs as well as roses and carnations . |
| 7 | Given the character 's added rebellious nature — playing chess on the Ottawa security link and receiving calls from her small boy on the Downing Street red line ( ‘ I ca n't give him my office number , that 's a state secret ’ ) — she fully exploits the rich comic potential of the role while not missing the pathos of the woman striving to hold her lover , albeit more idealistically than emotionally . |
| 8 | However much she might have set herself up to be hurt , she told herself defiantly , selecting white Bermudas and a cool Chinese-style silk blouse from her small selection of clothes , however much of a fool she might have made of herself , she would n't change a thing . |
| 9 | From her small cubby-hole on the opposite side of Canon Wheeler 's office to Miss Coldharbour 's room Julia listened to Theodora 's litany with interest . |
| 10 | Beth rose from her front row seat , turned , and allowed the audience to get a good look at her before making her way out . |
| 11 | His family , he told me , had been in the bakery business for nearly 50 years since his grandmother started selling cakes from her front room . |
| 12 | From her front door to the wall was a room made of glass with royal-blue diamonds next to the collapsed guttering . |
| 13 | A wife 's promise not to go to court to seek maintenance from her estranged husband was deemed to be void as being contrary to public policy and , consequently , the husband 's promise to pay her money in consideration of her agreeing not to go to court was made without consideration and also void : Gaisberg v. Storr [ 1950 ] 1 K.B.107 , but see now , Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , S.34 , below , p. 220 . |
| 14 | The Marchioness has n't yet been able to see her baby son George , nor has she had a visit from her estranged husband , Jamie Blandford , currently banned by the High Court from seeing her . |
| 15 | A mother is appealing to the Government to help her get her sons back from her estranged husband in Libya . |
| 16 | Princess Diana — only hours back from her ill-fated tour to Korea with her husband — suddenly contacted the Press Association news agency . |
| 17 | Trapped and mad as the birds , she 'd have seen the horse chestnut and its thick green kaleidoscope of leaves from her barred window . |
| 18 | Wendy Jones would like to hear from her ex-penpal , Staff Sgt Jeff Wilson , last known 3 Squadron , 13 Signal Regt , BFPO 45 . |
| 19 | And from the last , another Australian distance runner , we want letters three and four from her married surname . |
| 20 | It was not an intentional change but one that just happened , unlike Dona who goes to Navron House seeking sanctuary from her married life in London . |
| 21 | Time stood still in the attic room while they exchanged the most innocent of kisses and embraces , and McAllister faced her future , the bruises slowly disappearing from her wounded spirit under the healing power of true love . |
| 22 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 23 | They took her last baby away from her twelve years ago . |
| 24 | He glanced sideways , his gaze travelling from her honey-blonde head and down the violet cashmere serape which topped a black turtle-neck sweater and pencil-slim leggings . |
| 25 | From her elegant Park Avenue apartment come Picasso 's ‘ Femme dans un Fauteuil ’ of 1946 depicting Marie-Thérèse Walter ( est. $3.5–4.5 million ; £1.8–2.4 million ) and a magnificent Matisse , ‘ L'Asie ’ of 1946 , also currently included in the MoMA ‘ Matisse ’ show , depicting a three-quarter length female model in fur gown holding up a necklace , painted in reds , mauve , pink and gold , estimate on request . |
| 26 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 27 | Then he waited for Louise Taylor to wake from her exhausted sleep . |
| 28 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 29 | Connie scrambled up , meeting some resistance from her long skirt . |
| 30 | Her gown was almost wet through and water dripped from her long hair to the floor . |