Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millie 's new mistress paused as if uncertain what to do next ; then turning quickly about , she led them from the kitchen into the hall and to the open front door again , and looked to where her children were all standing round the pony and cart . |
| 2 | I think it was a mongrel she got it from the animal rescue |
| 3 | She filled it from the larder and the fridge . |
| 4 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 5 | She released him from the leather strap then ran next door to call the police . |
| 6 | She followed him from the dining-room , and Ernest shut the kitchen door . |
| 7 | He said it lightly but as she followed him from the staff-room she was aware that her heart had begun to beat very fast . |
| 8 | Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing . |
| 9 | She followed him from the room , along the gallery and down the stairs to the library , where Nicolo turned to her abruptly . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I think we can do better than that this time , ’ she told him , as she steered him from the sitting-room and along the hall and into Sebastian 's bedroom . |
| 11 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 12 | She took it from the cupboard and as usual became engrossed in the other pages of the newspaper . |
| 13 | When she took it from the oven she was pleased with it , but later , placing it on the trestle table in the hall where refreshments were to be served , she saw that Sister Dew 's was higher . |
| 14 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 15 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 16 | She had it from the police , ’ he added defensively . |
| 17 | When the Guardian arrived half an hour later , she plucked it from the letter-box with impatient hands . |
| 18 | Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was the temporary lodger whom the police arrested when , many months after the burglary , the original owner of the valuables thought that she recognized her from the description given by the shop owner of the person from whom she had bought the jewellery . |