Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] from her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At five o'clock she got up from her desk . |
| 2 | She got up from her seat and manhandled Caitlin from the room . |
| 3 | She got up from her chair and went over to him . |
| 4 | She got up from her chair . |
| 5 | She got up from her chair . |
| 6 | She got up from her chair , went to a cupboard and came back with a crusty roll and a dish of butter . |
| 7 | Cook had been moved by Sarah 's grief when she got back from her father 's funeral , and when she heard how Maggie had given birth on the very same day she had taken pity . |
| 8 | Anyway , ’ she rose briskly from her seat behind the desk , ‘ I 'm on duty pretty well all day , so it 's not really feasible . ’ |
| 9 | Instead , she rose smartly from her seat and stepped out through the doors as they opened . |
| 10 | She rose quietly from her place at the side of the table and went out of the room . |
| 11 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 12 | He was now fifty , and he felt she deserved more from her marriage . |
| 13 | From the silence that followed , Ellie gathered her father had finished with her , so she climbed down from her chair and hurried up to her father 's place . |
| 14 | She turned away from her looking-glass , pouring water into the china bowl by her bed . |
| 15 | One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet . |
| 16 | Hagans was allowed to come and go as he pleased and only days later , he raped and murdered council worker , Anna McGurk , as she walked home from her office . |
| 17 | She stepped carefully from her platform to the first foothold and put her hand in his . |
| 18 | The Portuguese verb janelar ( ‘ to window ’ ) precisely reflects this condition of the woman separated from social life , which she knew only from her window . |
| 19 | She reached out from her bed , waited for another chirrup in case the caller was going to ring off , and snatched the receiver irritably . |
| 20 | Shelley was putting her drawer of patients ' notes in alphabetical order , but she looked up from her work to ask quietly , ‘ Do you care for Dr Rafaelo ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ P'raps not a gambler at the tables , but in other areas , eh Captain ? ’ with a wink as she looked up from her fan of cards . |
| 22 | Impatient to play her loving part in Nicandra 's fate , whatever might befall her , she looked up from her glass , raising her head like a bird that finishes drinking . |
| 23 | After a moment she looked up from her plate and directly at her father , ‘ Yes , Pappy . |
| 24 | She looked up from her Tarot cards as Topaz approached , her thin lips tightening . |
| 25 | When she could hear not a sound she went swiftly from her room , through the sitting-room , and into the bathroom . |
| 26 | She emerged triumphantly from her plane wearing dress , coat , hat , pearls and silk stockings . |
| 27 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 28 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 29 | She jumped up from her chair . |
| 30 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |