Example sentences of "she [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
| 2 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
| 3 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 4 | But as she gazed from the French windows on the tangle of weeds outside , and the now dense greenery of Switham Thicket , a plea formed in her mind as she thought of Lady Merchiston upstairs , in conference with her man of business . |
| 5 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 6 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 7 | She rose from the stiff armchair . |
| 8 | And when the Virgin Mary died she rose from the dead too ; not just her soul went up to heaven , but her body too . ’ |
| 9 | She finally found her voice , screaming as she bolted from the hideous life-form that was shaping even as she watched into the form , the outward appearance of a dead human . |
| 10 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 11 | She withdrew from the second round , allowing the unopposed election of Galy-Dejean ( the mayor of the 15th arrondissement , of which the ward formed a part ) . |
| 12 | Glad to leave the bright sunlight of the Riviera and the noise of the traffic she turned from the main street into Santa Maria in Portico . |
| 13 | At last , dripping wet , with water sparkling like jewels on her cheeks and forehead , and rivulets running from her hair , she stepped from the last stone on to the bank . |
| 14 | The new Dunbar lifeboat , the Waveney-class Thomas James King , was on station in Torness Harbour to greet Spirit of Scotland when she returned from the Tall Ships Race to Norway ( see back page ) . |
| 15 | She watched from the unlit half-landing window as Maurice climbed into the Mercedes , its rear lights blurred and twin exhausts clouding in the misty air . |
| 16 | She watched from the burned wood . |
| 17 | Robbie spent the afternoon as Fen had suggested , and when she alighted from the stifling , ancient bus crowded with country folk , she felt in no mood to go back to the boat . |
| 18 | She leapt from the narrow bed . |
| 19 | She recoiled from the beguiling warmth of his hands , his eyes . |
| 20 | She recoiled from the blatant rejection in his voice , snatching hand and mouth away and flinging herself angrily on to her back . |
| 21 | William Wright of Charing Cross 's 1634 monument to Lady Deane at Great Maplestead , Essex , has a more exaggerated movement than that of Donne , and the hands are now completely liberated from the shroud as she emerges from the black marble recess of the tomb . |
| 22 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 23 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 24 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 25 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 26 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 27 | She looked from the magnificent Renaissance oil-paintings that graced the wall behind her to the perfect symmetry of the mosaic floor in the atrium . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now she emerged from the tall forest of filing shelves , a middle-aged woman wearing a look of tremulous satisfaction . |
| 30 | As she emerged from the main cabin and looked about her , Robbie discovered that these were very definitely not last night 's surroundings . |