Example sentences of "she [vb past] from her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was certainly not getting the kind of back-up she got from her old man . |
| 2 | This was a curious necklace which she wore on Sunday afternoons after lunch , when she changed from her drab , black , weekday clothes into her best dress . |
| 3 | The same smell of stale tobacco hung on the air that she recalled from her only meeting with Tatyana Nowak the day before her suicide . |
| 4 | She glanced from her regular customers to the two new ones who seemed to be interested in the proceedings , and she said , ‘ Well , now , she wo n't get much chocolate toffee for a ha'penny . |
| 5 | The next morning , when she returned from her early visit to the estate office , Delia Sutherland found Frank Grimwood waiting to speak to her . |
| 6 | She snarled as she leapt from her subterranean tunnel out into the sunlight , on to the bloodstained sand . |
| 7 | ‘ Camo , ’ she called from her own kitchen . |
| 8 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 9 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 10 | She knew from her own experience that the whole person needed to be developed , not just a robot only capable of regurgitating examination fodder . |
| 11 | Her death comes just one month after she split from her second husband by whom she had a daughter less than a year ago . |
| 12 | Handing him one of the cans , she drank from her own , and coughed as it went down the wrong way . |