Example sentences of "[verb] her from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said Suzanne had telephoned her from Germany . |
| 2 | He thought she was worrying about Midge 's reaction to the news when they had telephoned her from Richie 's flat . |
| 3 | Weeks later , her boyfriend visited her from Germany . |
| 4 | It was also a pleasant parish , and the vicar 's wife was very kind to Anna and shielded her from exploitation . |
| 5 | But instead of protecting her from attack , this mask forced the gas at her , rushing it up into her face with a sinister hissing . |
| 6 | ‘ He beat us to it , ’ she informed Felipe crossly as he guided her through the crowd , protecting her from knocks . |
| 7 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 8 | She waited for morning , the words playing through her mind and keeping her from sleep . |
| 9 | No , it was not discomfort keeping her from sleep . |
| 10 | James 's mum said to me , and she does n't know her from Adam , she said |
| 11 | ‘ I phoned her from London , ’ Newman said quickly . |
| 12 | In feeling , though not in detail , this stands closer perhaps to another figure known in many copies through which a really great original seems to shine : ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ ( fig. 81 ) , after the scholar who reconstructed her from copies of the head ( known by a quaint tradition as ‘ Aspasia ’ ) and of the body , one with a Roman portrait-head . |
| 13 | Susan had no clothes on , and the two men were showering her from head to foot — in her eyes , inside her ears , everywhere . |
| 14 | I asked the police to ring her father and ask him to come and collect her from school . |
| 15 | As for the Scottish envoys … first , a journey by land is too dangerous ; secondly , our good King Henry believes this is a Scottish matter and does not wish to intervene officially ; finally , Queen Margaret and her household , on the other hand , do not wish to be seen to have anything to do with the men who drove her from Scotland . ’ |
| 16 | Then , John said , he would know that she had been arrested because she had forgotten her pass , which all blacks had to carry , and would automatically telephone his father to go and fetch her from prison . |
| 17 | Her ill health did not prevent her from painting , from being politically active in the communist movement nor from leading a rich life . |
| 18 | He might have saved her from Jem , but did that give him the right to such a ruthless inquisition ? |
| 19 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd collected her from Kalkara early this morning , to take one of his charter yachts for a test sail . |
| 21 | I was horrified to find out later that in fact he had not collected her from school but from the police station . |
| 22 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 23 | Yes and the kids can drop round and see her from time to time . |
| 24 | Then the front zip of her jeans yielded to his importuning hands and he eased away a little so that his fingers could slide inside , seeking , exploring , sensitising , until shudders shook her from head to foot . |
| 25 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 26 | ‘ I shall be here , ’ Joan said quietly — telling herself that wild horses , let alone Richard of Gloucester , would not keep her from Edward . |
| 27 | As a solitary horseman went by , he stepped in front of her , partially shielding her from view , then grasped her arm and propelled her swiftly across the drawbridge and into the castle in total silence . |
| 28 | If that was all that separated her from childhood , it was n't much . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the social development of Rome separated her from Etruria and made her similar to a Greek city ; and this is what Heraclides Ponticus recognized . |
| 30 | Scrupulous honesty , and a strong sense of the ridiculous — she can be very funny — save her from sentimentality . |