Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , Ruby was considering how well publicized her intervention in the case would be if she were to work from the Post newsroom . |
| 2 | Pins and needles tingled in her fingers and toes , creeping along her limbs until she felt as if she were disconnected from the world . |
| 3 | One of the men had a key and she was moved from the car into an empty , damp and very cold house . ’ |
| 4 | She took on a black lad and because she did that she was ostracised from the rest of the community . |
| 5 | It was n't until she was stumbling from the room that she saw her mother . |
| 6 | She was paralysed from the waist down , but the baby survived . |
| 7 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 8 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 9 | Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water . |
| 10 | The prosecution say that she was plucked from the bridge by Hagans , who 'd lain in wait for the right victim and then pounced . |
| 11 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 12 | She was gone from the window now . |
| 13 | She was blown from the porch back into the passage . |
| 14 | She waved and smiled at relatives as she was led from the dock to start her sentence . |
| 15 | The girl , thought to be aged about five , had stopped breathing when she was pulled from the water on the South Bank near the old GLC build-ing steps . |
| 16 | She felt her arm being grabbed , and slowly she was pulled from the quicksand . |
| 17 | She was won from the League by Molly Braithwaite at a lecture demonstration , and herself became a dedicated Medau worker and ambassador , qualifying as a teacher in 1963 , and travelling by bus and train , apparatus and all , to take her numerous classes . |
| 18 | With the workman 's help she was lifted from the boat and taken into the palazzo . |
| 19 | She ran home , ran as fast as she could ; she was running from the picture of Miss Arabella Marks deep in a hole where earth crept up round her lace-frilled socks and drowned her beautiful blue eyes . |
| 20 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
| 21 | ‘ She was released from the unit into a bed-sit , where she lived totally alone . |
| 22 | Perhaps he was planning to weaken her before she was released from the dungeon . |
| 23 | Her heart had failed and she had n't regained consciousness since she was carried from the drawing room . |
| 24 | It seemed to Culley that she was retreating from the sound of his voice . |
| 25 | She was discharged from the rehabilitation centre , and returned to the original hospital for out-patient physiotherapy treatment . |