Example sentences of "her from [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 2 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 3 | She vaguely heard Matilda 's angry voice , but it came to her from a great distance . |
| 4 | I spoke to her from a great distance . |
| 5 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 6 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 7 | ONE of Prince Charles 's closest friends is to undergo surgery to save her from a crippling disease . |
| 8 | The story of how he acquired her from a petty criminal and gradually transferred his love from man to dog is told in his novel We Think the World of You ( 1960 ) , which won the W. H. Smith award . |
| 9 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 10 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 11 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 12 | Her alarm clock , a replica of an old-fashioned instrument purchased from Habitat , with an analogue dial and a little brass bell on the top , rouses her from a deep sleep at 7.30 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He sat watching her from a deep armchair , legs crossed at the ankles , hands lightly clasped . |
| 15 | A pink carnation smirked at her from a transparent vase on the table . |
| 16 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 17 | it was in my training , she but she had n't but your mother who never had before I could rely on her from a little child , I said stay there , when I came back , if I came back half an hour later , she 'd still of been there Linda would of been |
| 18 | She found herself talking about her father — the way he had brought her up alone , how he had tried to dissuade her from a racing career . |
| 19 | It cost me money though , I originally got her from a tutoring agency . |
| 20 | By now Smallfry was using her other voice , the one that screeched shrilly and somehow managed to transform her from a beautiful movie-star into something savage and frightening . |
| 21 | He says he felt as if he knew her from a previous life — of course he did . |
| 22 | She was more than capable of defending herself if the need arose , but what if her pursuer was someone who had recognized her from a previous UNACO assignment , someone out to blow her cover ? |
| 23 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 24 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 25 | Pathologist Dr Godman Greywoode said her skull cap type helmet was of the best available quality … but the design did not protect her from an untypical side impact . |
| 26 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 27 | It did not save her from the Black List . |
| 28 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |
| 29 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 30 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |