Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 2 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 3 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 4 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 5 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 6 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 7 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 8 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 9 | It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace . |
| 10 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 11 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 12 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |
| 13 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 14 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
| 15 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 16 | Once a man she 'd never met before , a man called Peter who did n't seem to have a wife , kept dancing with her in the Godsons ' house , holding her very close , in a way that quite upset her and yet was pleasurable . |
| 17 | But I kept thinking about her during the day . |
| 18 | This time Freddie elected to sit with her in the front of the car . |
| 19 | A moment later , though , and Fabia was scrapping that theory , for she had just remembered how Ven had parted from her with the words , ‘ I 'll send Ivo for you about seven . ’ |
| 20 | He had explained to her about the imitation dove that would fly out from the high altar during the Easter mass and light a great cart of fireworks . |
| 21 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 22 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 23 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 24 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 25 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 26 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 27 | A wonderful change had come over her since the episode with the cockchafers . |
| 28 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 29 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 30 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |