Example sentences of "[pron] from her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't going to be easy , arguing with someone from her inferior position , but she 'd be damned if she 'd let him speak to her like that ! |
| 2 | The early years in Tennessee were hard and the family was frequently hungry , but in 1868 Frances , who from her earliest childhood had been a compulsive inventor of romances , sold her first two stories to Godey 's Lady 's Book , raising the money for paper and postage by selling wild grapes . |
| 3 | I was still standing by the pool when I saw Tiare , who walked towards me from her parked car and asked , ‘ How are you settling in , Doctor ? |
| 4 | Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’ |
| 5 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Woodville sat up and gently disengaged herself from her sleeping son . |
| 7 | Still drugged with sleep , struggling to free herself from her half-dreaming state , Isabel 's eyes snapped open just as Guy released her mouth . |
| 8 | He gave him a hand with a large oil drum , and then another , as Nell , tearing herself from her appointed task , dragged over a bench . |
| 9 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 10 | Warren Caswell turned sharply to find old Lady Usk 's eyes staring up at him from her diminutive height . |
| 11 | ‘ You know I have n't walked so much during my entire lifetime as I 've walked these last few days , ’ he said with an effort to divert her from her dark thoughts . |
| 12 | This morning even the scenery could not lift her from her jaundiced mood . |
| 13 | While he was in no position to read her the Riot Act , it was plain commonsense to discourage her from her present ways . |
| 14 | He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother , although she looked the elder by some years . |
| 15 | For example , the Chairman of the Board of Guardians for St Giles in East London considered that widows must be held in part responsible for their own condition : ‘ After the lapse of a certain number of years , when a widow has had the opportunity of showing providence on her own account , I think you may separate her from her late husband , but not immediately after his death ’ . |
| 16 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 17 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 18 | Abruptly , she was engulfed by fierce indignation , flooding through her , rescuing her from her own weakness … |
| 19 | ‘ Now listen , Ellen , we 've unhinged her from her original faith . |
| 20 | Writer Jane Roberts , who channelled Seth , says that she tended to ignore any desires which might distract her from her creative work , so she used to suppress the impulse to take physical exercise . |
| 21 | Prince Albert had inherited the hereditary disease , otosclerosis , from his mother who had herself inherited it from her own mother , Queen Louise of Denmark . |
| 22 | With the green cloak hiding his old clothes , he did n't look like her brother any more , or indeed like anyone from her own world . |
| 23 | It transpired that ‘ family ’ meant anyone from her own tribe . |
| 24 | I think you have done enough and must distance yourself from her possessive embrace . |
| 25 | He nodded , putting down his drink on a black marble table and coming over to take hers from her numb fingers . |
| 26 | Leaning forward , still shivering , wanting to be sick yet unable to raise anything from her empty stomach but an acrid bile which made her retch again , she attempted to find a chink somewhere in the blank wall , growing granite upon unyielding granite , around her . |