But you cannot understand or study a subject from notes alone, as too many students try to do.

The woman at the table looked up from her notes.

When she thought to look up from her notes again, he was gone.

Each could easily read from the other's notes on health care or the environment.

I wrote down the words for him, and from my notes he read them, when that place in the speech came along.

She simply looked up from her notes and stared at him.

Here, from notes he kept for a book, are other observations.

The national security adviser continued to read from his notes.

I am speaking here from her own proposal and notes.

He looked up from his notes and spoke with irony.