Example sentences of "[noun sg] she have [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 2 | She rose early and spent the morning with Aunt Emily or visiting the kitchen and garden and orchard and doing the household accounts and the correspondence she had taken over from her aunt . |
| 3 | Holding the red Conway Stewart pen she had picked up from the grass , she went over the scene again and again . |
| 4 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 5 | He eyed Fenella uncertainly and Fenella , who was becoming impatient , said , ‘ Well , for heaven 's sake — ’ which was an expression she had picked up from Snizort and Snodgrass and which was as meaningless as most of their expressions , but descriptive of strong emotion . |
| 6 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |