Example sentences of "she have [vb pp] from [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 But Winnie has a secret , too , one she has kept from her daughter for all these years .
2 Anyway I asked her if she 'd heard from your dad , and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant
3 She has learned from her suffering and believes always in the power of her homesite .
4 There has been the feeling that the emotional outpourings she has drawn from her panellists have been inspired largely by the ‘ glamour ’ of television .
5 Anyway I asked her if she 'd heard from your dad , and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant
6 Perhaps she 'd fled from his passivity , from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty .
7 Thérèse agitated her knees and rattled the rosary she 'd produced from her pocket .
8 ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son .
9 Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast .
10 True , she had prospered from her acquaintance with Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton , of the City police ; but all journalists had to have their sources .
11 His mouth tightened but he released her wrist , eyes glittering , and she ran up the stairs , into her bedroom , slammed the door , locked it , then knew with a terrible deep certainty that she had run from her own desire .
12 She had run from his office and away from Woodline Design .
13 The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too .
14 She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face .
15 She had risen from her bed , slipped on her dressing-robe , and lighting her bedside candle with the tinderbox on the table , she had taken it in her hand and gone into Lady Merchiston 's chamber .
16 While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion 's father before him , a stubborn and cussed temperament .
17 They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother .
18 She had inherited from her father a quick , enquiring mind and was hungry for knowledge beyond the skills possessed by the Romanies .
19 Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier .
20 If somebody failed to come up to her own high standards the directness she had inherited from her Australian background meant they would soon know .
21 ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’
22 She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men .
23 Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway .
24 She had lived all her life in the street running alongside the railway , and since she had retired from her late father 's business , a haberdashery store in Wimbledon , since she had sold it to a family from Northampton for a good price , Hannah Worthington walked each day to the shop at the end of the street .
25 And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden .
26 By her bed was a chest of drawers which contained her underwear — several pairs of cheap directoire knickers , vests , petticoats , and corsets , plus black stockings of wool , cotton , and one precious silk pair which she had brought from her old life .
27 All she had needed from her man , she had decided , was an indication that he was still keen .
28 She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free .
29 It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband .
30 For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother .
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