Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got up from her knees and made shooing gestures . |
| 2 | She got up from her chair and went over to him . |
| 3 | She got up from her seat and manhandled Caitlin from the room . |
| 4 | She got up from her chair . |
| 5 | At five o'clock she got up from her desk . |
| 6 | She got up from her chair . |
| 7 | She got up from her chair , went to a cupboard and came back with a crusty roll and a dish of butter . |
| 8 | Cook had been moved by Sarah 's grief when she got back from her father 's funeral , and when she heard how Maggie had given birth on the very same day she had taken pity . |
| 9 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 10 | AS SOON as she arrives back from her American lecture tour tonight , Mrs Thatcher will head straight for a glittering parlour in central London . |
| 11 | But when Maria Filippa heard Davide laugh , she twisted up from her stricken position and her eyes fixed on him with hatred , ‘ You 're laughing , are you ? |
| 12 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 13 | From the silence that followed , Ellie gathered her father had finished with her , so she climbed down from her chair and hurried up to her father 's place . |
| 14 | When she stepped back from it , it hummed and emptied itself . |
| 15 | She pulled back from him , sitting on her haunches . |
| 16 | She took over from him when he left Grampian for Strathclyde in 1978 . |
| 17 | She reached out from her bed , waited for another chirrup in case the caller was going to ring off , and snatched the receiver irritably . |
| 18 | ‘ P'raps not a gambler at the tables , but in other areas , eh Captain ? ’ with a wink as she looked up from her fan of cards . |
| 19 | She looked up from her Tarot cards as Topaz approached , her thin lips tightening . |
| 20 | After a moment she looked up from her plate and directly at her father , ‘ Yes , Pappy . |
| 21 | Impatient to play her loving part in Nicandra 's fate , whatever might befall her , she looked up from her glass , raising her head like a bird that finishes drinking . |
| 22 | Shelley was putting her drawer of patients ' notes in alphabetical order , but she looked up from her work to ask quietly , ‘ Do you care for Dr Rafaelo ? ’ |
| 23 | She looked up from his reflection and met his eyes . |
| 24 | She cringed back from him , pressing herself against the stove , wondering if she could edge past and make for the door . |
| 25 | She jumped up from her chair . |
| 26 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 27 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 28 | His anger reached out with a deadly force that made her flinch back from him . |