Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter . |
| 2 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 3 | Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ? |
| 4 | Then she sees Trotter 's purse lying open with the money she has cashed from the county welfare . |
| 5 | Fiona admits she still does not know how to check the performance of the fund and that the only information she has received from the company is the annual report and accounts . |
| 6 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 7 | On the way back , she 'd inhaled from the can , covering her T-shirt in flammable deodorant . |
| 8 | But the contact sheet she 'd taken from the office was not in her bag , not in any of the half dozen dead newspapers lying round the floor , not under any of the piles of flung-down clothes , not under the sofa , not in the bin . |
| 9 | For the first time , she saw he was holding the roses she 'd thrown from the window , and he handed them to her . |
| 10 | The man who 'd caught Jude when she 'd dropped from the high-wire . |
| 11 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 12 | She raced sobbing from the room . |
| 13 | She began sliding from the chair towards the gaping hole in the floor . |
| 14 | She began to rake from the front of the house towards the road , then realized she had nothing in which to put the leaves . |
| 15 | She began to divert from the path , tracing a semicircular route round the bonnet of the car . |
| 16 | She struggled to rise from the couch . |
| 17 | After making several trips to Headquarters in Lincoln 's Inn and each time letting the bus take her on to Aldgate East , she managed to resign from the movement . |
| 18 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 19 | In any case , Bertha must be allowed to choose whatever she wishes to take from the house . ’ |
| 20 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 21 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 22 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 23 | At every opening in the trees , across every glade , and beside every hidden pool , Marian looked to see that glint of white she had seen from the Ridgery ; it was never far from her mind . |
| 24 | Marian explained what she had seen from the Ridgery . |
| 25 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 26 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , she had to withdraw from the Symposium , feeling that the effort was too much considering the work that she still required to do on her own Flora . |
| 28 | She had fallen from the hatch . |
| 29 | She had run from the hotel , snapping off shots blindly ; but the adrenalin in her body , the clarity of thought , the way her subconscious had controlled her actions , all of these things had sharpened her shooting to perfection … |
| 30 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |