Example sentences of "she was [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 2 | She was grinning from ear to ear , her eyes sparkling in excited anticipation , like a child watching magicians at a carnival . |
| 3 | When she finally left him to go upstairs her heart was overflowing , and she was beaming from ear to ear . |
| 4 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 5 | She was trembling from head to foot . |
| 6 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 7 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 8 | Only her head was free to move by now and this she was tossing from side to side , her eyes rolling in panic , while her fear was further expressed in snorts and whimpers . |
| 9 | She was suffering from tuberculosis of the spine and was in a special bed ; accordingly , a motor ambulance would be required . |
| 10 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 11 | She was expelled from school for being a ‘ bad influence ’ , joined a heavy metal band and at one stage worked as a Bunny Girl for her father 's biggest rival , Playboy chief Hugh Heffner . |
| 12 | She was reading aloud , a man holding a boom mike was registering her voice ; she was declaiming from Soul on Ice : |
| 13 | She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours . |
| 14 | Robyn let out a deep sigh and realised that she was shaking from head to foot . |
| 15 | She was shaking from head to toe , her heart thumping wildly . |
| 16 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 17 | Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly . |
| 18 | She was discharged from hospital within a week and by that time , could carry out the majority of her normal activities . |
| 19 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 20 | She was banned from politics between 1964 and 1981 , and spent 10 of these years under house arrest . |