Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Winnie has a secret , too , one she has kept from her daughter for all these years . |
| 2 | Anyway I asked her if she 'd heard from your dad , and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant |
| 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| 5 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |
| 6 | Anyway I asked her if she 'd heard from your dad , and she has heard from your dad apparently on Friday he went to the consultant |
| 7 | She told Chola she 'd heard from someone in Pere that the bull was ill , and she knew she 'd be able to cure it : she 'd treated hundreds in her time and only one had ever died . |
| 8 | Perhaps she 'd fled from his passivity , from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty . |
| 9 | Thérèse agitated her knees and rattled the rosary she 'd produced from her pocket . |
| 10 | She felt excluded from their world even though she could not have been better informed ; the trouble was Ferdinando still belonged to that world . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I expect so , dear , ’ her mother replied , quite obviously thrilled at the lovely long letter she had received from her adored son . |
| 12 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 13 | As she had turned from him it had slipped down . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Jezrael felt immense , immortal , swelled by the rage at herself that grew when she realized the deaths she had diverted from herself to her friends , to Company enemies . |
| 16 | Guilt because she had run from them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had run from his office and away from Woodline Design . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While she had inherited from her father , and the stallion 's father before him , a stubborn and cussed temperament . |
| 23 | They were in the sitting-room of Isobel 's little house , the house she had inherited from her mother . |
| 24 | She had inherited from her father a quick , enquiring mind and was hungry for knowledge beyond the skills possessed by the Romanies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |