Example sentences of "[that] she had [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen 's voice was suddenly a harsh scream , so harsh that we both looked towards her and saw that she was threatening both of us with one of Wavebreaker 's heavy-duty fire extinguishers that she had snatched from its rack at the head of the main companionway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems . |
| 4 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better not waste any more time , ’ she added , pushing the door open and going through , finding herself at an entrance to the dock area that she had seen from Froebe 's office . |
| 6 | We went on listening as she informed us that she had progressed from the easy-peasies such as Keats and Dickens to the Russian heavy brigade . |
| 7 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 10 | Naomi , she was arriving back penniless she had a foreign daughter-in-law , that in itself was proof enough that she had strayed from God 's will . |
| 11 | But it could be like this perhaps , ’ illustrating her point with some jewel that she had quarried from her years of research in the mines of history . |
| 12 | There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return . |
| 13 | But Mother Francis had fought like a tiger for that small bundle that she had rescued from the cottage , on the day she was born . |
| 14 | She finished scribbling her details on the back of the old envelope that she had extricated from her bag . |
| 15 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 16 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 17 | Anna who had renal cancer , died just hours after she learned officially that she had graduated from Northumbria University . |
| 18 | She moved along the counter to where , beneath it , on a narrow table , there stood a number of trays and , taking up the brass hammer , she broke the edge of the toffee and put four pieces into a newspaper cone that she had taken from a number stacked up by the side of the tray . |
| 19 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 20 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 21 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone , ’ he said , trusting her ; knowing that she had acted from more than self-interest . |