Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 3 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 4 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 5 | Jonathan 's face grinned at her from the telescreens . |
| 6 | Shelley sat at the desk and took the pile of cards Miguel dumped before her from the filing cabinet . |
| 7 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 8 | It looked like her from the back . |
| 9 | His golden shadow fell on her from the lamp . |
| 10 | In the bathroom , her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror . |
| 11 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep . |
| 14 | His eyes ran over her from the wild disorder of her pale hair to the agitated beating of the pulse in her throat and the smooth rounded thrust of her breasts , and he looked at her angrily . |
| 15 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 16 | Reaching across , he slammed the door again , then glared at her from the space of inches . |
| 17 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |