Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] from her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would never again speak of sin , certainly not to Lili , for one of the messages I had gathered from her speech was that it would bore her . |
| 2 | But Winnie has a secret , too , one she has kept from her daughter for all these years . |
| 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 | Thérèse agitated her knees and rattled the rosary she 'd produced from her pocket . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son . |
| 7 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion 's father before him , a stubborn and cussed temperament . |
| 14 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |
| 15 | She had inherited from her father a quick , enquiring mind and was hungry for knowledge beyond the skills possessed by the Romanies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All she had needed from her man , she had decided , was an indication that he was still keen . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 27 | She finished scribbling her details on the back of the old envelope that she had extricated from her bag . |
| 28 | All the knowledge she had came from her lessons in the village school , which she had left a year or two earlier . |
| 29 | Florrie was affectionately known as ‘ Hairpin' Axford through her use of a large hairpin which she had removed from her hair on more than one occasion to ‘ make a point ’ , as she herself described it . |
| 30 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |