Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd died from multiple stab wounds to the chest . |
| 2 | She started to hop from one foot to the other . |
| 3 | She was carrying a bag of shopping that she kept moving from one hand to the other . |
| 4 | When I eventually did contact her things seemed to be going quite well due to supportive family but she felt isolated from other mothers in the same situation as herself . |
| 5 | No doubt that was due to the ticking off she had received from that strict harridan of a teacher at the small private school in Kensington . |
| 6 | The Scottish National Party Euro-MP for the Highlands and Islands , Winnie Ewing , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland , detailing some of the correspondence she had received from worried parents . |
| 7 | Hitherto dean of the faculty of foreign studies at Sophia University in Tokyo , she had served from 1976 to 1978 as a diplomat in Japan 's UN mission , and subsequently chaired the executive board of the UN Children 's Fund . |
| 8 | But , although she had progressed from happy childhood to happy marriage , all the while a conflict was raging within her . |
| 9 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 10 | Some of her ideas about sex and marriage seemed old-fashioned compared with various loudly expressed opinions she had heard from other nurses , and her steps towards the lighter side of life were still very tentative , as Deana 's blunt accusations last week had shown her . |
| 11 | It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems . |
| 12 | For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery . |
| 13 | Perhaps one of the reasons she had gone from one man to another was that she could not bear to lose the excitement and flattery of the early stages of love . |
| 14 | Long ago she had retreated from all the suffering into her own world . |
| 15 | Perhaps , when she had recovered from this encounter , he could suggest that they become engaged , albeit in an unacknowledged fashion as he could not afford a ring worthy of her . |
| 16 | She raised the oddly shaped blaster she had taken from one of the Chelonians and fired . |
| 17 | Even her first husband she had regained from that dreadful hinterland of marsh and bog and storm cloud : and now they were good friends , she and Edgar , in the sunlight , harmlessly friends , and on some subjects ( the National Health Service , the pathology of multiple murderers , the ethics of reporting violent crime ) had struck up alliances that excluded , that increasingly and dramatically excluded , her husband Charles . |
| 18 | Ruth did n't follow straight away ; she stood folding her napkin absently and staring down at it and wondering what she had learnt from that . |
| 19 | She was invaluable for remembering original routines , which she had learnt from old John Tiller himself . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone , ’ he said , trusting her ; knowing that she had acted from more than self-interest . |
| 21 | But even as she went over all this she continued to hurry from one section of the store to another , searching , her heart thumping . |