Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Michelle Dixon had claimed she was sacked from the massive Trees Park Village home in Middleton St George near Darlington after expressing concern over allegations of mice and cockroaches on the premises . |
2 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Theda demanded , indignation warring with the hurt she was experiencing from the dreadful blow that had been dealt her , the vicious attack to which she had been subjected . |
5 | One day , one of the mares cut her leg , and as it required stitching she was separated from the other horses and shut in a stable without more ado . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | She was rescued from the burning building by a neighbour . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
10 | The next time he saw her she was emerging from the very lift he was waiting for . |
11 | Most of the subsequent writing on Mary Queen of Scots has stressed the immense , even intolerable burden placed on the shoulders of this young and carefully nurtured girl , when at the age of eighteen she was driven from the civilized country of France , where she had lived since she was five , to the backward and lawless kingdom of Scotland . |