Example sentences of "she [adv] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Delighted to meet you , ’ he was saying , regarding her keenly from deep-set , mesmerising dark eyes . |
| 2 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 3 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 4 | He had deceived her utterly from start to finish , and such calculated deceit was a downright insult ! |
| 5 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 6 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 7 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 8 | ‘ All in a good cause , ’ he commented with more of his inbuilt charm , but firmly took her away from things Baroque or Gothic by hailing a passing taxi . |
| 9 | He had loomed up before her , had arrived to claim the woman again , pulling her away from Sally-Anne , his own face twisted with rage . |
| 10 | Madeleine had taken her away from school . |
| 11 | So I had Drew use his charm on her to get her away from Chuck and bring her here today . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We all have our gifts , and yours is The Brain , Hilary , ’ her mother had told her firmly , guiding her away from dates and dances and the like . |
| 13 | ‘ Take her away from Woodborough Junior and send her to St Saviour 's . ’ |
| 14 | It would be good , I thought , to get her away from Laurence for a while … |
| 15 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 16 | Harvey elbowed his way through and , grasping Amaranth by the hand , pulled her away from Ron Barton , and escorted her out of the room . |
| 17 | Images from her dreams charged into her consciousness suddenly and curtained her away from reality . |
| 18 | The Darkfall lightning scratched and flickered with its spider legs at the nearby window … and Duvall kicked savagely at Barbara 's head , spinning her away from Jimmy . |
| 19 | It was almost as if someone were keeping her away from trouble . |
| 20 | And so Clara told Clelia , in return , some of her own history , and in telling it , she seemed to find , strangely and more securely than ever a tone that absolved her , a tone that redeemed her past from meanness and humiliations , so that she even found herself able to speak of her own mother without evasion . |
| 21 | This sense of woman 's uncleanness as separating her both from men and from the realm of holiness is developed in the Levitical codes : |
| 22 | Her navigation system guided her infallibly from waypoint to waypoint . |
| 23 | It moved with her silently from room to room , breathing softly against the back of her neck . |
| 24 | There was the prince 's mother , mamina , the old principessa she was called to tell her apart from Anna . |
| 25 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 26 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |