Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday , her half-day off from the shop , as Rachaela was sitting in her chair listening to Tchaikovsky ballet music , the door sounded . |
| 2 | Delia Sutherland 's finger pressed a black-and-white photograph of a woman lifting her hair away from the grabbing hand of the baby in her arms . |
| 3 | Her hair down from the secret of her ears , |
| 4 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 5 | I started Wavebreaker 's engines , used the bow thruster to drive her stem away from the quay and , with an apparent cargo of misery and mania , went to sea . |
| 6 | Is it an old family ? ’ she asked brightly , trying to tear her mind away from the constant , destructive need to touch him . |
| 7 | and erm you know , she 'd come from Hampshire apparently and she an an yo you know , er we got talking about ma and she 's taken her child away from the local school and sen , is now going to a little private school up the Tin Valley , near Tingrace apparently . |
| 8 | She decides to seek medical help for bulimia , the nervous illness that has been dogging her marriage almost from the start . |
| 9 | Fran , unable to drag her gaze away from the little girl 's excited face , said : ‘ We got the final all-clear from the Pittsburgh Children 's Hospital yesterday . |
| 10 | A that Mala flushed slightly , but even so seemed unable to tear her gaze away from the man in gold and white . |
| 11 | Merrill tore her gaze away from the hard planes of his face , polished by the lamplight , the mysterious , exciting shadows around his eyes . |
| 12 | With an effort she pulled her gaze away from the tall figure clad in blue trousers and black T-shirt . |
| 13 | She found she could n't continue , nor was she able to tear her gaze away from the dark , silky hair on his chest , only inches away from her eyes . |
| 14 | At the first waves of other-worldly congregational sound Lee swung her body away from the sight of these people and curled herself into a womb-like position , hugging her waist with her arms . |
| 15 | It was as though she sucked her body away from the glass before she turned to Nicandra . |
| 16 | Ha ha , it 's your au — fr … parents ' friend , Janice , Gav beamed , radiating unrepentant guilt ; came round here the other day looking for you we got talking went for a curry had a few drinks ended up back here one thing led to another know how it is always liked older women they 're more experienced know what I mean arf arf anyway spent an extremely enjoyable New Year at her place apart from the usual visit to my folk 's of course oh by the way she 's coming round here tonight I 'm cooking lasagne can you swap rooms seeing Norris wo n't be back until tomorrow it 's just I did n't expect you back until then either , that okay ? |
| 17 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 18 | Agnes put down her knife and fork and turned her head away from the table as she began to laugh ; Jessie was spluttering , too , as she said , ‘ You 've got no idea about some of the letters the girls make up , real naughty ones . |
| 19 | She counted every hundred paces , to give her something to cling on to and then , turning her head away from the gale , she shouted George 's name , cocking her head this way and that to catch any reply . |
| 20 | Ace turned her head away from the uncovered corpse . |
| 21 | She turned her head away from the hissing shadow and pressed her cheek to the wall . |
| 22 | If he came back he would see her walking away from the house , walking down the track as if she were on her way back to Paris . |
| 23 | Aunt Tossie pushed her chair away from the tea table and reached for her latest square of needlework — a parrot clutching its way up the husky stem of a palm tree . |
| 24 | I could see she wanted to leave and soon she pushed her chair back from the table and stood up to leave . |
| 25 | ‘ Nico 's Dream ’ is a fine example of this , where a sampled fragment of the late ice queen 's vocal is caught in a metal mesh of shifting sound that , for a fleeting moment , brings her spirit back from the dead . |
| 26 | She turned her armchair away from the window . |
| 27 | The gang expected to net £5,000 as they ambushed a wages clerk on her drive back from the bank . |
| 28 | Between Newbury and Reading a middle-aged man had pressed his knee against hers , and she had had to change compartments , doing her best to look unconcerned about it , as if she often heaved her suitcase down from the rack halfway between stations to try the view farther down the train . |
| 29 | According to her biographers , Robert Laguardia and Gene Arceri , however , Hayward ‘ was n't anxious to do with her career what now had to be done : modify her image away from the old-guard glamour to fit the concepts of new directors like Mike Nichols … repulsed at the semi-nude hotel-room sex scenes she would have to play , she did not consider it . |
| 30 | He lunged forward and plucked her hand away from the screen . |