Example sentences of "she [vb past] from a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 2 | She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride . |
| 3 | Beth was always very careful to put a safety screen across the fire , but ever since the tragedy that had taken Maisie , she suffered from a real dread of accidents . |
| 4 | Next morning she woke from an intense dream , and did not dare wonder about its meaning . |
| 5 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 6 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 7 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 8 | She came from a well-known north London family , and was the widow of a proctor . |
| 9 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 10 | She came from an ordinary background … her father was a railway clerk . |
| 11 | It suggests that a human being could in theory obtain all the food he or she needed from a well-tended patio ! |
| 12 | Her eyes were clear of tears ; she looked from a great height down into the park and saw its order and its beauty so determinedly brought forth . |
| 13 | When Schiffer arrived at the Academy Awards to mark her debut as Revlon 's new star , she emerged from a double stretch limo , accompanied by suitable escort , Dan Moriarty , Revlon 's vice-president . |
| 14 | She blossomed from a precocious teenager in films like The Wizard Of Oz into a charismatically attractive woman with towering talent , able to sing , dance and act like no one before or since . |
| 15 | For , at some point during the night , she awoke from a restless sleep , to find her face and pillow damp with tears . |
| 16 | She awoke from a light drowse to the distant strains of Tchaikovsky 's Violin Concerto , the lyrical theme of the first movement . |