Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she had time to think he had wrenched her case from her and , pushing it in front of him , used the sharp ends as a battering ram to force his way through the crowds . |
| 2 | She is nonetheless scathing of the intellectuals in the Hamburg legal establishment who ‘ did n't raise a finger ’ when the Nazis dismissed her father from his job . |
| 3 | For example , in the British Picture Vocabulary Test , the child is required to point manually or to eye-point to indicate her selection from a set of pictures . |
| 4 | Rachaela had expensively rescued her furniture from store . |
| 5 | He did not deny her assertion but smiled contentedly as Constance drew her dish from the oven . |
| 6 | Vitor drew her dress from her and a pair of white bikini briefs followed , then he swiftly undressed . |
| 7 | With a sob she drew her mouth from his and cried out as she threw her head back . |
| 8 | Although speakers stressed the importance of welcoming Quebec into a reformed federal structure , the party failed to address detailed constitutional change , and one of the party 's Quebec MPs denounced the resolution as a cosmetic exercise , announcing her resignation from the PCP . |
| 9 | Louisa snatched her cape from the peg , banged the door shut behind her and leaned against it , panting . |
| 10 | She rose and stalked across the room , snatched her brush from the vanity table and dragged it through her hair with harsh , angry strokes . |
| 11 | Izzie snatched her arm from between his hands and snapped . |
| 12 | With a final effort that she felt in every nerve of her body , she jerked her hand from his and turned away to the fire . |
| 13 | Isabel jerked her hand from his , holding it out as though to ward him off . |
| 14 | She jerked her face from him , struggling . |
| 15 | Whether she was star struck , or simply just ambitious for her daughter , Patsy failed in her primary duty of protecting her daughter from a confused and selfish man . |
| 16 | Isa was trying to retrieve her jaw from the counter when the door opened and two Americans walked in . |
| 17 | She bent to retrieve her bag from where it had fallen under the seat and saw the parcel which made her heart sink . |
| 18 | Julie stood on the sea wall and moved her head from side to side allowing the fresh wind from the estuary to blow through her hair . |
| 19 | She stood , arms extended but bent , and slowly moved her head from side to side . |
| 20 | She moved her head from side to side . |
| 21 | Pressing it more firmly against her breast as his breathing became as erratic as her own , she moved her mouth from his and buried her face in his neck . |
| 22 | Blanche 's armchair squeaked as she moved her weight from one side to the other . |
| 23 | The moment his body covered hers she felt a great tide of revulsion and panic surge upwards until it threatened to choke her , and she threshed her head from side to side in blind , unreasoning panic , thrusting him away with frantic hands . |
| 24 | Isabel screamed again , twisting her head from side to side , catapulted brutally into panic-stricken hysteria . |
| 25 | To avoid political embarrassment Queen Victoria had discouraged her cousin from settling in England but , as a prince of Great Britain , he was buried at St George 's chapel , Windsor , where his Garter banner had hung since 1835 . |
| 26 | I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time . |
| 27 | In alarm she struggled to hide her body from the eyes of the young men , and in so doing knocked the vessel on to its side , leaving her and the soapy water on the floor . |
| 28 | She wriggled up , away , trying to hide her nakedness from him , groping for her clothes , avoiding his look , his touch . |
| 29 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 30 | She d certainly changed her tune from the other day . |