Example sentences of "she was [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.

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1 She was to collect it from the church house in the morning . ’
2 She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train .
3 She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight .
4 She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her .
5 I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front .
6 She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye .
7 She was asking something from him , this stranger whose job was to shoot the IRA assassins if they came .
8 She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe .
9 She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road .
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