Example sentences of "[vb past] her from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 2 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 3 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 4 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 5 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 6 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 7 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 8 | He had undermined all her carefully built-up controls , got under her skin in the most insidious way possible , and turned her from a cool little lady into a screaming fishwife . |
| 9 | He sat back and released her from the probing examination , meeting her gaze more normally . |
| 10 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 11 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 12 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 13 | It cost me money though , I originally got her from a tutoring agency . |
| 14 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 15 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 16 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 17 | ‘ She is a very sweet natured little thing , very non-aggressive , and Mia liked her from the very start , ’ said Marie . |
| 18 | Without fumbling or undue haste , Rohan freed her from the silky folds . |
| 19 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 20 | She must have some radar , he thought , that at the last saved her from the worst effects of his anger and frustration . |
| 21 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 22 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 23 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 24 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 25 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |