Example sentences of "from which she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rope from which she hung was old . |
| 2 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 3 | He thought that in principle the plaintiff 's right to compensation came into existence only when she was born with the bodily disability from which she suffered . |
| 4 | It could be said that her rights were born together with her ; and from birth with her guardian 's help she could bring the action and endeavour to show that the injury from which she suffered was caused prior to her birth through the fault of the defendant . |
| 5 | ‘ Ingested that from which she died at that meal ? ’ |
| 6 | Our problem is that while Mrs Iverson appears to have ingested that from which she died at the dinner party there is no dish from which some or all the guests did not share . ’ |
| 7 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 8 | Turning her head round to see what the pain could be , Pepita had seen the spider scuttle back into the crate from which she had been thrown with the bananas . |
| 9 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 10 | She negotiated a fee of $1,800 a week from which she had to pay the Girls ' salaries of $45 each , netting considerably more for herself . |
| 11 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 12 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 13 | Crouched by the window from which she had lifted the blackout curtain , she also became aware of something else , unmistakable strong , insistent : the first stirrings of the new life within her . |
| 14 | These were the ordinary things from which she had been protected by her money and her ill health . |
| 15 | She had a sort of velvet cap , from which she had snipped a bit of veiling . |
| 16 | She had the sense she was inhabiting a dream from which she had no desire to wake . |
| 17 | But the strangeness of the tropics and the sophistication of the almost-forgotten culture from which she had sprung had greatly exaggerated her sense of release from the frustrations of the past . |
| 18 | She was obviously in distress , raising herself on all fours , snatching the hair from her face as she looked back in terror at the plaster wall from which she had just come . |
| 19 | Subsequently she became one of the queens of the Parisian demi-monde , ruling in the late 1860s over a loucher version of the Court from which she had been excluded . |
| 20 | The clarinet lay dusty on a shelf beside a Lamb 's Tales from Shakespeare , a sheep 's jaw from which she had meant to begin a study of anatomy , and a rough tangle of embroidery wools with which she had resolved to emulate Penelope , stitching and stitching as if her life and virtue depended upon it . |
| 21 | First Richard Blake had taken advantage of her innocence , seducing her into a youthful infatuation from which she had managed to free herself only just in time . |
| 22 | Beside her was a wooden cradle , from which she had taken her baby . |
| 23 | Stunned , he proceeded , coughing , in the direction from which she had come . |
| 24 | For a fleeting moment , she wondered if the woman might have given her deliberately wrong directions but , shrugging the thought away , she started the car and turned back in the direction from which she had just come . |
| 25 | Voluntarily then she moved back to the couch from which she had sprung up earlier . |
| 26 | The mirror was veined with gold and misted with the scented steam of the bath from which she 'd just emerged . |
| 27 | The female still lay there , watery eyes staring at some remote distance from which she waited to be recalled . |
| 28 | The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement . |
| 29 | Her analysis may have been inflected by the upsurge of a new wave of militant feminism in the early twentieth century from which she felt distanced . |
| 30 | She is here again because I , with a claim of my own to advance , and having regard to yet another claim , with strict fairness , brought her back to Shrewsbury , from which she began her controversial odyssey , so that she herself might choose where she wished to rest . |