Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis , standing at the front gate , had managed to catch most of the exchanges ; had watched Mrs Williams as she 'd finally turned away from Morse in tearful distress . |
| 2 | She felt curiously distanced now from all the problems of the morning . |
| 3 | He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory . |
| 4 | Relieved that he had apparently not betrayed himself and yet wishing that she had not moved away from him , David told her about the history of the old Jewish quarter of Venice . |
| 5 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 6 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 7 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 8 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 9 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 10 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 11 | Although she had consistently turned away from singing opportunities — ‘ The more people nagged , the more I was determined to stay away ’ — she realised that this was something that , say , Lulu would never even consider . |
| 12 | I did n't see why I should enjoy living again so soon when poor Catherine had had all that she valued slowly torn away from her … ’ |