Example sentences of "she [vb past] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
| 2 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 3 | But as she gazed from the French windows on the tangle of weeds outside , and the now dense greenery of Switham Thicket , a plea formed in her mind as she thought of Lady Merchiston upstairs , in conference with her man of business . |
| 4 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 5 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 6 | She rose from the stiff armchair . |
| 7 | And when the Virgin Mary died she rose from the dead too ; not just her soul went up to heaven , but her body too . ’ |
| 8 | She finally found her voice , screaming as she bolted from the hideous life-form that was shaping even as she watched into the form , the outward appearance of a dead human . |
| 9 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 10 | She drew from an enormous hold-all an array of archaeological cakes and buns , and displayed them with pride . |
| 11 | Beth was always very careful to put a safety screen across the fire , but ever since the tragedy that had taken Maisie , she suffered from a real dread of accidents . |
| 12 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 13 | Next morning she woke from an intense dream , and did not dare wonder about its meaning . |
| 14 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 15 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 16 | She came from a large family of seven children , of whom she was the eldest . |
| 17 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 18 | She came from a well-known north London family , and was the widow of a proctor . |
| 19 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 20 | She came from an ordinary background … her father was a railway clerk . |
| 21 | She came from an eminent legal family and the wedding took place at Croxton , Cambridgeshire , where her family had a home , on 2 May 1758 . |
| 22 | Glad to leave the bright sunlight of the Riviera and the noise of the traffic she turned from the main street into Santa Maria in Portico . |
| 23 | The new Dunbar lifeboat , the Waveney-class Thomas James King , was on station in Torness Harbour to greet Spirit of Scotland when she returned from the Tall Ships Race to Norway ( see back page ) . |
| 24 | She watched from the unlit half-landing window as Maurice climbed into the Mercedes , its rear lights blurred and twin exhausts clouding in the misty air . |
| 25 | She watched from the burned wood . |
| 26 | Robbie spent the afternoon as Fen had suggested , and when she alighted from the stifling , ancient bus crowded with country folk , she felt in no mood to go back to the boat . |
| 27 | She leapt from the narrow bed . |
| 28 | It suggests that a human being could in theory obtain all the food he or she needed from a well-tended patio ! |
| 29 | She recoiled from the beguiling warmth of his hands , his eyes . |
| 30 | She recoiled from the blatant rejection in his voice , snatching hand and mouth away and flinging herself angrily on to her back . |