He lifted his hand from her shoulder and stood up.

She lifted her head from his shoulder and looked directly at him.

Finally, she stopped, and lifted her head from his shoulder.

As if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

The security chief felt as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

She made a sound as though some kind of weight were being lifted from her shoulders.

He looked like a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

"I feel like the weight of five billion years has been lifted from my shoulders."

It is like a weight being lifted from my shoulders.

It was as though a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.