Example sentences of "she remembered from " in BNC.

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1 The trick with the little fingers was the only thing she remembered from a piece she had once written on self-defence courses for women .
2 At last she found the exit at the far end of the enormous shed , and burst out into a dark courtyard , littered with the hulks of abandoned machinery , which she remembered from the morning .
3 So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand .
4 " To paint , " she remembered from Proust 's description of fictive Elstir , " that one does not see what one sees . "
5 His handsomeness was a little battered now , but he still had the wolfish look she remembered from years ago — long face , strong jaw , broad brow ; his mouth was full and slightly lopsided , which gave him a crooked grin .
6 ‘ Good day , ’ said the Robemaker and Fenella suppressed a shudder , because it was the hissing , whispering voice she remembered from the forest road earlier .
7 When she risked a glance at him his gaze held that patrician mockery , the scathing expression she remembered from their first meeting .
8 On a groan and a sigh as men are supposed to attain their pleasure and then — as she remembered from her one other experience — there came his reluctance to move away from her , her panic urgency to be free of him while there might still be a chance that no damage had been done .
9 That made sense , and fitted in with what she remembered from college business lectures .
10 And a few moments later she was shown into the office she remembered from before .
11 She did not ring for a nurse because she did n't want to have to seem cheerful and she remembered from the two births of her live children , which had gone well , that this was a rule in hospitals .
12 Here were the Hepplewhite chairs and the Pembroke table , coveted by Mervyn Cantrell , portraits of her grandparents and of her father in cope and biretta , the comer cupboard with the lustre jugs collected by her mother , the old silky Bokhara rugs on the polished parquet floor of the sitting room , the familiar books in the white-painted bookshelves , and the china ornaments she remembered from childhood .
13 Sophia , who had not made this flight before , was disappointed that it did not look more like the Italian landscape she remembered from the ground .
14 That had been some encounter ! she admitted as , regaining the sanctuary of the street , she drew in a deep breath of refreshing air before turning into the road which she remembered from her map-reading would lead her into a series of narrow streets closed to traffic , and known familiarly to the local inhabitants as Strøget .
15 She remembered from last time how quickly it got too tight .
16 She wanted him to take her in his arms and make her feel once more the strong , swift surge of desire that she remembered from their one night together .
17 When it came slightly up-breeze of Tallis she noticed the appalling stench that emanated from its form : marsh gas and the smell of death which she remembered from her time in the mortuary house .
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