Example sentences of "she [was/were] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pins and needles tingled in her fingers and toes , creeping along her limbs until she felt as if she were disconnected from the world . |
| 2 | Michelle Dixon had claimed she was sacked from the massive Trees Park Village home in Middleton St George near Darlington after expressing concern over allegations of mice and cockroaches on the premises . |
| 3 | One of the men had a key and she was moved from the car into an empty , damp and very cold house . ’ |
| 4 | She took on a black lad and because she did that she was ostracised from the rest of the community . |
| 5 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
| 6 | That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else . |
| 7 | She was paralysed from the waist down , but the baby survived . |
| 8 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 9 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 10 | Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water . |
| 11 | The prosecution say that she was plucked from the bridge by Hagans , who 'd lain in wait for the right victim and then pounced . |
| 12 | Julie was awake when she was collected from the recovery room and was distressed by the sensation of being lifted from the theatre trolley into bed . |
| 13 | She was gone from the window now . |
| 14 | She was blown from the porch back into the passage . |
| 15 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 16 | She waved and smiled at relatives as she was led from the dock to start her sentence . |
| 17 | One day , one of the mares cut her leg , and as it required stitching she was separated from the other horses and shut in a stable without more ado . |
| 18 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
| 19 | The girl , thought to be aged about five , had stopped breathing when she was pulled from the water on the South Bank near the old GLC build-ing steps . |
| 20 | She felt her arm being grabbed , and slowly she was pulled from the quicksand . |
| 21 | She was won from the League by Molly Braithwaite at a lecture demonstration , and herself became a dedicated Medau worker and ambassador , qualifying as a teacher in 1963 , and travelling by bus and train , apparatus and all , to take her numerous classes . |
| 22 | With the workman 's help she was lifted from the boat and taken into the palazzo . |
| 23 | She was rescued from the burning building by a neighbour . |
| 24 | ‘ She was released from the unit into a bed-sit , where she lived totally alone . |
| 25 | Perhaps he was planning to weaken her before she was released from the dungeon . |
| 26 | Her heart had failed and she had n't regained consciousness since she was carried from the drawing room . |
| 27 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 28 | Most of the subsequent writing on Mary Queen of Scots has stressed the immense , even intolerable burden placed on the shoulders of this young and carefully nurtured girl , when at the age of eighteen she was driven from the civilized country of France , where she had lived since she was five , to the backward and lawless kingdom of Scotland . |
| 29 | She was discharged from the rehabilitation centre , and returned to the original hospital for out-patient physiotherapy treatment . |
| 30 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |