Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always surprised that things did n't fall on her from the sky more often , considering how much was up there these days . |
| 2 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 3 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 4 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 5 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 7 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 8 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 9 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 10 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 11 | She started drinking heavily , and fellow drunks would return with her from the pub on Friday nights . |
| 12 | A minute more and she was certain she had walked further than the distance from the van to where Sniffy had called to her from the undergrowth . |
| 13 | Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle . |
| 14 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 15 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 16 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 17 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |
| 18 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 19 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 20 | Shelley sat at the desk and took the pile of cards Miguel dumped before her from the filing cabinet . |
| 21 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 22 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 23 | It looked like her from the back . |
| 24 | His golden shadow fell on her from the lamp . |
| 25 | For the next few days Ruth spent most of her waking hours with Anna , reading to her from the small collection of books Mrs Carson had brought on board , playing games , making up stories . |
| 26 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 27 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 28 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 29 | When Waterford Wedgwood Canada 's Gail Lilly volunteered to help out in a major international athletics event , she never dreamed she would find a pen-pal who would write to her from the other side of the world . |
| 30 | ‘ Good evening , Fabia , ’ he greeted her smoothly as the housekeeper melted away , his dark eyes flicking over her from the top of her golden head , taking in her features and perfect complexion before travelling over her long-sleeved fine wool lime-coloured dress , its straight lines hiding none of her femininity , before his all-assessing gaze ended at her neat two-and-a-half-inch-heel shoes . |