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Example sentences of "she [vb past] from the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Cow-Keeping in India , " she read from the spine of a volume that had suffered from damp .
2	" Practical Taxidermy , " she read from the spine of another .
3	She grasped the light covering and was about to throw it off when she realised from the fabric 's texture that her own cotton skirt had been laid over her .
4	Well , Maudie 'ands 'im a pile o' leaflets she got from the church an' tells 'im ter 'and 'em out ter the carmen .
5	She translated from the classics and the French symbolist poets .
6	’ There 's a brown rim under the soap-dish ! ’ she shouted from the kitchen , coming back with a scrubbing brush and abrasives .
7	She 'd arranged with the school for me to see her results and report later when she phoned from the villa .
8	She was highly critical , however , of the terms under which the League of Nations was set up in 1919 , partly because the League was permitted the use of force and economic sanctions , and partly because it was committed to supporting the Versailles settlement , which she regarded from the start as an unjust and unstable peace .
9	She rose from the bed and stared at her reflection in the speckled mirror on the wall .
10	She rose from the bed where she had spread out the rosettes , strode to the window and stared down into the garden .
11	She rose from the settle .
12	At last she rose from the water , wrapping a towel about her damp body as she walked to her room , mentally weighed down by her thoughts , and physically wearied , too .
13	She rose from the chair , muttering to herself , ‘ Oh dear ! ’ because she knew she would have to make her way to the closet at the far end of the house .
14	‘ Aye — ’ she rose from the chair , went to a basket at the side of the hearth and , taking up a log , she almost flung it on the fire , and as she dusted her hands she ended , ‘ that 's what she tells me .
15	Shannon patted her shoulder comfortingly as she rose from the chair .
16	She rose from the chair .
17	At the end of the song she rose from the couch and went to the door , hesitated , did not open it , and then returned to the window-seat .
18	Assume it 's okay , ’ and she rose from the table and went upstairs .
19	She rose from the table .
20	She rose from the table .
21	Julie murmured in a sceptical tone of voice as she rose from the table .
22	A faint wash of colour rose under her skin and she rose from the table and walked to the counter .
23	Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize !
24	It was still very much in her mind as she moved from the window .
25	She fled from the bathroom in Stockton , Cleveland , unhurt .
26	The siege began on Sunday afternoon after Leanne 's mother , Pauline Rees , 43 , was shot in her head as she fled from the house .
27	to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah
28	Eight minutes later Mary Logue equalised for Ireland and with twelve minutes remaining Sarah Kelleher saved Irish blushes when she scored from the spot .
29	At the bottom flight she walked more demurely , but when she came in sight of the lobby she stopped , watching as Lin Foh was addressed by the man she recognised from the car that had earlier pursued Latowa , and caused it to explode .
30	Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon .