Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] her from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman from Ollerton was imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre after joining a picket line in breach of a bail condition prohibiting her from doing so . |
| 2 | With a small , helpless moan she surrendered to the muscular arms tightening like a vice about her , gazing up at his hawk-like features thrown into sharp , dramatic relief by the pale moonlight , and trembling at the dangerous gleam in the eyes devouring her from beneath their heavy lids . |
| 3 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
| 4 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 5 | She was aware of those sapphire-hued eyes following her from time to time , resting on her , evaluating her . |
| 6 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
| 7 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 8 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 9 | She had the sensation that if she looked over her shoulder she would find Rohan Saint Yves watching her from the shadows … |
| 10 | Seeing Thérèse and Léonie watching her from an upstairs window she straightened up , smiled , waved . |
| 11 | Theda blanched even paler , a wicked flash and an ominous rumble preventing her from hearing the curse that issued from Mr Beckenham 's lips . |
| 12 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 13 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |
| 14 | No , it was not discomfort keeping her from sleep . |
| 15 | Rain 's arm was gripped by a dowager in green silk , the woman recognizing her from her byline picture in the paper and wanting to know who had killed MacQuillan . |
| 16 | She has endured house arrest , detentions without trial , continual harassment by the police and orders banning her from political activity , while , all the time , never shrinking from her duties of leadership in the thankless battle against apartheid . |
| 17 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 18 | With the man holding her from behind , we moved slowly , agonizingly slowly , along the narrow hallway . |
| 19 | Jenna looked up from her gloomy contemplation of her appearance to find a young man watching her from a racy-looking open-topped car . |
| 20 | The impact flung Donna forwards in her seat , the safety belt preventing her from hitting the windscreen . |
| 21 | For a second she stood alone , livid weals striping her from head to foot . |
| 22 | A cry escaped her as her face became scratched by the sharp ends of broken fern fronds , and the next instant she felt Silas lifting her from the damp ground . |
| 23 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |
| 24 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 25 | The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements . |
| 26 | The other half of the club has a stage surrounded by white plastic tables and chairs , above which a blonde girl in a white body stocking was dangling from a rope , with only a ligature around her ankle saving her from crashing head first to the floor . |
| 27 | Bhutto , who was tear-gassed as she led a march from Rawalpindi to Islamabad demanding fresh elections , was banned from Islamabad for defying an order preventing her from staging a demonstration in Parliament Square . |
| 28 | These constitutional provisions had previously been called into question during a highly controversial case in February 1992 when the High Court in Dublin prevented a 14-year-old girl and her family from procuring an abortion or from leaving Ireland for nine months , even though she had repeatedly threatened to commit suicide ; the order preventing her from leaving the country was subsequently lifted after an appeal based on recognition of the equal rights of mother and child and the right to freedom of movement within the EC [ see p. 38780 ] . |
| 29 | There was a funny kind of tightness in her chest preventing her from breathing properly . |
| 30 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |