Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got up from the table and poured herself out a glass of water , and then sat down again . |
| 2 | She got up from the floor and sat on Anna 's knee . |
| 3 | She got up from the table and walked into the conservatory with a bowl of fruit for her macaws . |
| 4 | As he came in , she got up from the couch and came across , embracing him , her eyes bright with excitement . |
| 5 | Seeing that her employer 's eyes were once again drooping heavily , she got up from the bed . |
| 6 | She got up from the table , the food hardly touched on her plate . |
| 7 | She got up from the bed and started packing , throwing things haphazardly into her bag . |
| 8 | Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent . |
| 9 | She got down from the jeep , straightened her dress and headed back towards the barn . |
| 10 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 11 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 12 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 13 | ‘ When she came back from the doctor , she was crying in pain , ’ says Aszal Galiara . |
| 14 | She came back from the telephone booth quickly , looking distracted . |
| 15 | She sprang up from the bed with that quick restless grace which had always delighted him , and pulled on her green dress . |
| 16 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 17 | Finally she stepped back from the table to admire her handiwork . |
| 18 | She stepped back from the chair , and pointed to a nearby footstool . |
| 19 | She stepped down from the carriage and was going to leave him , when he stopped her and said , ‘ You 're not going to turn away from me like that , dear ? |
| 20 | She swung round from the window . |
| 21 | But in the end she pulled back from the brink , conscious of Charles 's silent but reproachful figure hovering on the edge of her vision . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's a pompous , conceited , self-opinionated bully ! ’ she called through from the bathroom as she began to slip out of her clothes . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm coming to Pollensa with you , ’ she called out from the kitchen as she put the kettle on for coffee . |
| 24 | She stared up from the ground , her wings hanging loose as if she no longer had strength to hold them to her body , her left wing seeming bent as if it had once been broken . |
| 25 | She looked up from the tray she was laying — silver teapot and best china and thin bread and butter — and said , ‘ What 's up with you , Miss Down-In-The-Mouth ? |
| 26 | She looked up from the ID card , then handed it across . |
| 27 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 28 | She looked up from the minutes she was collating . |
| 29 | And then , when she looked out from the window of her room in the Palings Hotel , there he was , a star performer modest amid the crowd , the Great Zeno , walking past with his twin , Luke Mallen . |
| 30 | As she looked down from the stand , the horses for the third race , a handicap over six furlongs , were filing out on to the racecourse . |