Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 2 | She has moved from Arrow , and is just the sort of author who can benefit from a change of publisher , for she has been slipping a little recently . |
| 3 | TENNIS widow Tatum O'Neal has acquired a string of handsome admirers , now she has split from husband John McEnroe . |
| 4 | For the past year , she has suffered from incontinence , but her kind next-door neighbour has done regular washing for her . |
| 5 | She made coffee in a dented silver pot and served it in dark-green cups with gold rims and gold handles , cups she 'd stolen from home . |
| 6 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 7 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 8 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 9 | She had suffered from anorexia nervosa since the age of 19 . |
| 10 | She was filled with happiness , although during the past six weeks she had suffered from indecision and doubts . |
| 11 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
| 12 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 13 | Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them . |
| 14 | Remember , all her life she had wandered from place to place , sleeping in a tent or under the stars . |
| 15 | She had learned from experience that it was unwise to argue . |
| 16 | Ever since she had learned from Rose of his mother 's red hair , she had fondly permitted her idle daydream , her secret wishes , to grow and flower as if indeed they existed . |
| 17 | The last time she had woken from sleep it had been to find herself looking into the blue eyes of a dangerous enemy ; now the enemy was a friend . |
| 18 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 19 | A post mortem revealed she had died from shock . |
| 20 | Swindon coroner John Elgar said she had died from asphyxiation . |
| 21 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 22 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |