Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pron] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 2 | An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative . |
| 3 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 4 | I thought she 'd fetched it from the bedroom . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning . |
| 8 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 9 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 10 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whether or not she was saved , it was a fact that she had saved him from a bleak scepticism . |
| 13 | She had created it from the chaos , she was its God . |
| 14 | She greeted him with pleasure , for she had liked him from the start . |
| 15 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 16 | But , after a while , she had to excuse herself from the discussions to express some milk and Laura was furious . |
| 17 | The SOCO drew the key from her pocket with a smile , saying she had borrowed it from the office manager . |
| 18 | She just replied that she had got it from the cupboard . ’ |
| 19 | Rose was the second generation in it , and she had taken it from a back street operation to a small , high class chain . |
| 20 | Yes , he was every bit as good looking as she had thought he was when she had glimpsed him from the catwalk . |