Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.

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1 Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry .
2 It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him .
3 She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk .
4 Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea .
5 Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before .
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