Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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1 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
2 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
3 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
4 | This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning . |
5 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
6 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
7 | She had seen the children in other families break away entirely from the too zealous claims of an old nurse and when the time came , as it surely must , she wished to protect herself from the pain which rejection could cause . |
8 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |