Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 2 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 3 | His greatest , his only concern was to ensure that she stayed away from his sister 's husband . |
| 4 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 5 | ‘ They count the hours until she comes home from school , ’ Margaret said . |
| 6 | It was n't until she turned away from the elms that Artemis realized she was not alone . |
| 7 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 8 | But she could n't ask , and she looked away from him , her glance falling on the flowers on the poet Mácha 's statue . |
| 9 | He kissed her lightly on the cheek and she flinched away from him . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll take my basket and go on now , ’ and she walked away from him , her heart beating fast . |
| 11 | And then he said something facetious , and she stepped away from him . |
| 12 | She does have affection for him but is not over-impressed with his success as a writer and she speaks directly from her own experience rather than any vicarious sensations . |
| 13 | ‘ Her grandmother married her to a very royalist nobleman , and she ran away from him to Edinburgh . ’ |
| 14 | As it turned out she was in the bath when she heard the sounds of a car pulling up outside , swiftly followed by tapping on the door , and she jumped quickly from the water , pausing only to belt a towelling robe about her waist . |
| 15 | The thought brought her up short , and she pulled away from his kiss , sending him a quick horrified glance as she wondered once again if he had been able to read her mind . |
| 16 | Thanks to her ‘ habits ’ the job did n't last long , and she moved away from Sheffield in 1960 , sending a note to say she 'd keep in touch . |
| 17 | But it was too late for her to break the habit of dislike , and she turned away from me . |
| 18 | Her cheeks burned and she turned away from the window . |
| 19 | He viewed her with scepticism , and she turned away from him , heavy with the knowledge that he would never believe her , and too tired to keep up the argument . |
| 20 | Michael held out his arms to her and she shrank away from him , clinging to Roy . |
| 21 | If she ran away from Julius every time the conversation touched on the past or got in the least personal , then he was going to start to think he could still get to her . |
| 22 | A MASSIVE 86 per cent of Britons think Fergie should lose her title if she separates permanently from Andrew , said an ICM poll for the Sunday Express . |
| 23 | But she shied away from the idea . |
| 24 | I 'm sort of kneeling there , so I put my hand on Marie 's back to make her feel better , but she rolls away from me . |
| 25 | But she spun away from the cameras as she popped the parcel into her mouth using chopsticks . |
| 26 | Jill is 60 , and , since she retired early from her job as a dinner lady , has been caring full-time for her 90-year-old bedridden mother and for her husband who has Parkinson 's disease . |
| 27 | He almost told her that he had once lived a year with a girl he had married navvy-style , over the anvil , and had got her with child before she ran away from him . |
| 28 | He started to put his arm round Nancy 's waist and reached some of the way towards her mouth before she moved away from him . |
| 29 | Still gripping Nicola 's shirt , Goldman pulled her in and punched her , missing her face when she lurched away from the blow , but taking her on the body . |
| 30 | When she returned voluntarily from Canada last February , Bambi was not just put in solitary . |