Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] she [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was very careful after that not to take him for granted , even occasionally making excuses to refuse his sporadic invitations , although it tore her to shreds not to be with him at every opportunity . |
| 2 | and I woo her with words |
| 3 | Back in Australia I have a dog called Gabby and I take her for walks — I really miss her . |
| 4 | She nuzzled me and I cuddled her with tears streaming down my face . ’ |
| 5 | Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel . |
| 6 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 7 | He would not rest until he saw her behind bars . |
| 8 | I read of her collecting ivy with her children for Christmas decorations ( she rightly hated holly ) , while I told her of walks by the Nile with Sappho , my pretty mongrel bitch , watching the beautiful boats with big-bellied sails bringing cattle-fodder from Upper Egypt . |
| 9 | While he took her to pieces |
| 10 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 11 | There 'd been ever more frequent occasions , when he took her to dances and held her in his arms , that he had once more become acutely aware of her in a physical sense . |
| 12 | Was he , she wondered , proclaiming a confidence he did not feel , as he left her with instructions to telephone at once if she needed him . |
| 13 | Not an ounce of her resisted , as he consumed her with kisses and slow-moving caresses . |