Example sentences of "she [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 2 | But there was no point in talking to Victoria , who had forgotten anywhere else because she lived from day to day . |
| 3 | With the greater part of her days work done and since she did not have to cook Alisdairs lunch , ( he would likely stop in a pub near the market ) , she went back into the cottage to enjoy the only pleasure she got from life on the croft , her weaving . |
| 4 | She told Mum , and the reaction she got from Mum — I thought I ca n't cope with this . |
| 5 | ’ One of them once said the only thing that came close to giving her the same thrill she got from shoplifting was having sex in a public place — you know it 's wrong and you might be caught , but it feels great , ’ adds Liz . |
| 6 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 7 | She translated from Latin into Esperanto the Somerville song written in 1903 by Helen Darbishire , Margaret Moor and Margaret Robertson for the programme of Oxford songs , poems and lore . |
| 8 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 9 | She moved nearer , her silks and veils rustling about her , and we all watched with the same affection that she invoked from family and friends alike . |
| 10 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 11 | She was filled with an overwhelming sense of loss as she wandered from tree to tree , recognising many , feeling herself accused : she had overstayed her welcome in the world . |
| 12 | The house seemed to put comforting arms around her , as she wandered from room to room . |
| 13 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 14 | She suffered from back pain as a teenager after lifting heavy weights the wrong way . |
| 15 | Because she hated heights — she suffered from vertigo . |
| 16 | Simply from examining the bones the experts can tell us that she suffered from childhood illness and spent a lot of her life sitting on her heels using her left hand , perhaps grinding corn . |
| 17 | She suffered from migraine , diarrhoea with wind and bloating , and stiff , painful joints . |
| 18 | She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating , which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 19 | She was sent to me by her doctor , whom she had consulted because she suffered from anxiety attacks and what she called ‘ turns ’ . |
| 20 | Although Valerie Eliot did not like long sea voyages since she suffered from seasickness , and Eliot complained to friends like Marion Dorn about the expense involved , they travelled to the West Indies regularly over the next five years . |
| 21 | It was suggested that she hated the wet and dreary Balmoral holidays , that she suffered from anorexia , that she had quarrelled with a number of the Prince 's household and staff , that she was only interested in clothes , that she was a lover of discotheques and neglected her husband . |
| 22 | She suffered from arthritis and was largely confined to her home . |
| 23 | ‘ How frightful , ’ she murmured from time to time , as Mrs. Mounce catalogued another misfortune , another misunderstanding . |
| 24 | She brought her hands to her waist and , keeping her elbows out , pushed one forward then the other , as she twisted from side to side ; her face alight , she directed her radiance at the audience , finishing with the invitation , that issued from her lips as a command : |
| 25 | It seemed to me then , in my gymslip innocence , quite obvious that nobody would love ( in any passionate sense that mattered ) any female over 40 , whether she came from Fairyland or Finsbury Park . |
| 26 | She came from County Antrim , he told me . ’ |
| 27 | When she turned from painting to writing , she added to these gifts and to this training , two principles which might well be carved above the entrance door of every School of Journalism . |
| 28 | Came a day when your mother walked along the strand at Starr Hills and knew that tomorrow , or the next day , or the day after that , the stupid peasants would come and take away your grannie to the witch-finder , prick her for witch-marks , watch her till she maddened from sleeplessness , then swim her in the river . |
| 29 | But I am prepared to accept that her delusions of grandeur are a form of psychosis connected with ageing and that her refusal to consider retirement springs from an awareness that it is she , not the country , who is in danger of falling to bits is she desists from hyper-activity . |
| 30 | The next day she discovered from Liddy that Sergeant Troy 's supposed father was a doctor , but people said his real father was a nobleman . |