Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 2 | Dameta had taken one look at her heated countenance when she 'd emerged from the pleasance , and had ordered her to bed , muttering about fevers and the carelessness of wandering about in gardens without a mantle . |
| 3 | Some months ago , a reader sent me a copy of the form she 'd received from the States , but I was then advised this was n't likely to be honoured in law . |
| 4 | On the way back , she 'd inhaled from the can , covering her T-shirt in flammable deodorant . |
| 5 | But the contact sheet she 'd taken from the office was not in her bag , not in any of the half dozen dead newspapers lying round the floor , not under any of the piles of flung-down clothes , not under the sofa , not in the bin . |
| 6 | For the first time , she saw he was holding the roses she 'd thrown from the window , and he handed them to her . |
| 7 | The man who 'd caught Jude when she 'd dropped from the high-wire . |
| 8 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 9 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 10 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 11 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 12 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 13 | At every opening in the trees , across every glade , and beside every hidden pool , Marian looked to see that glint of white she had seen from the Ridgery ; it was never far from her mind . |
| 14 | Marian explained what she had seen from the Ridgery . |
| 15 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 16 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 17 | She had fallen from the hatch . |
| 18 | She had run from the hotel , snapping off shots blindly ; but the adrenalin in her body , the clarity of thought , the way her subconscious had controlled her actions , all of these things had sharpened her shooting to perfection … |
| 19 | She had run from the exploding craft and collapsed . |
| 20 | She knew she had ridden from the woods , screaming her grief … but she felt no grief , only a terrible inevitability , only cold acceptance . |
| 21 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |
| 22 | In a minute she had rushed from the house and was running down the garden . |
| 23 | She had sensed from the beginning that his compliments to her were of a different kind from those he bestowed so liberally upon every female in sight , but she could n't tell him that , while in her heart she liked them , she might be annoyed by his assumption that they were always acceptable . |
| 24 | We went on listening as she informed us that she had progressed from the easy-peasies such as Keats and Dickens to the Russian heavy brigade . |
| 25 | This was the first sensible suggestion she had heard from the headmaster since she had come to Burleigh School , one week after the beginning of Spring term ( her predecessor having expired , Kennedy 's Latin Primer in hand , in the middle of the pluperfect of Amo with Form 2B ) . |
| 26 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 27 | Giovanna Sassanta had given Julia a rather different view of the fighting in the Cassino valley from the one she had gained from the British newspapers at the time . |
| 28 | They knew she took bread to her mother , jam she had made from the blackcurrants at the foot of the garden but the basket always came back heavy with fresh eggs , a bunch of carrots from the bog , plums that they loved , sweet hard yellow apples . |
| 29 | She ran down the stairs , unbolted the heavy wooden door and was off , running in her nightdress , barefoot across the garden , holding the torch which she had snatched from the chest in the entrance hall . |
| 30 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |