Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 2 | There was a funny kind of tightness in her chest preventing her from breathing properly . |
| 3 | She felt her inability to demand anything from him , to need to demand anything from him , was a mark of failure . |
| 4 | He swore vehemently , causing Maggie to clamp a hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing . |
| 5 | Cassie caught her breath , putting her hand over her mouth to stop herself from crying out . |
| 6 | Murphy swung the horses round and headed them towards Bishopstow , and in the carriage , in her crumpled finery , Alexandra sat and pushed her fists against her mouth to stop herself from crying . |
| 7 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 8 | A named and photographed woman who had apparently beaten off The Fox by biting him was a major story in one Sunday newspaper : ‘ her courage saved her from becoming another of Fairley 's rape victims ’ . |
| 9 | She almost flinched , but somehow her pride rescued her from that , although she felt as though he 'd stuck a knife in her heart and started to revolve it . |
| 10 | The only other alternative would be to ask her father to collect her from the party , and , at twenty , that would be too embarrassing for words ! |
| 11 | And when told it was Victoria after the Queen and that the Queen was a wonderful lady , and her Prince was wonderful , too , she 'd had to bite her tongue to prevent herself from saying , ‘ Aye , she 's a wonderful lady all right , she 's still for bairns your size working twelve hours a day . |
| 12 | What fans did n't see was special effects boss Derek Meddings on the floor with his hand up her dress to keep it from ruffling up and his assistant up a ladder holding the tension on a piece of fish wire while the zip was being pulled down . |
| 13 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 14 | Her grandfather carved it from a single piece of pear wood ; its arms and legs are made of string , its shirt is just an old scrap of pyjama . |
| 15 | Gender factors are seen to be an integral part of mental illness in women and a woman 's limited resources are often a significant factor in her ability to extricate herself from oppressive , unsupportive environments . |
| 16 | The other half of the club has a stage surrounded by white plastic tables and chairs , above which a blonde girl in a white body stocking was dangling from a rope , with only a ligature around her ankle saving her from crashing head first to the floor . |
| 17 | Catching sight of the back of Bishop 's robes vanishing along the corridor leading to the Pit , Bernice began to follow automatically , but a firm pressure on her arm prevented her from continuing . |
| 18 | Weeks later , her boyfriend visited her from Germany . |
| 19 | Her boyfriend freed himself from the car boot . |
| 20 | Her boyfriend freed himself from the car boot . |
| 21 | Next day Peony said she was going to post a letter , did her mother want anything from the village ? |
| 22 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |
| 23 | Her mother called her from the kitchen , then appeared , wiping her hands upon her apron . |
| 24 | Her death delivers him from the ordeal of divorce , as frequent as funerals are in his books . |
| 25 | But all the same , Mr Browning thought it wise that she should send to the Ogilvys a letter for Gigia to carry in which both she and Ferdinando formally requested the return of their young son and gave her power to remove him from the care of his aunt and conduct him to Italy . |