Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better get her to the hospital , ’ said Comfort . |
| 2 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ Who is to know ? ’ he countered , and , setting a firm hand to her back , he began gently to propel her towards the table . |
| 4 | " Do you have sons and daughters , madame ? " he inquired politely to draw her into the conversation . |
| 5 | As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number . |
| 6 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 7 | Someone had eventually taken her through the bustling , towering giant world of the shop to where her mother waited . |
| 8 | We had better take her to the mortuary , before the daily hordes come pouring in . ’ |
| 9 | It was as if a light blow , say on her cheek , had suddenly distracted her from the braced confidence of her early mood to an unwelcome uncertainty . |
| 10 | But then she should have anticipated that , since Candy had already warned her of the Scorpio ability to be cruel . |
| 11 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 12 | However much she might have wanted to remain aloof from publicity the female press corps had already identified her as the ‘ Woman Head ’ of a multi-million dollar international corporation and , through the same lens , saw her therefore as challenging a man 's world . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh no , ’ she said , ‘ oh no , ’ in a shocked , incredulous way as if someone had just slapped her in the face . |
| 14 | Perhaps all those years wasted mooning over Jake had somehow robbed her of the ability to give her love to someone more deserving . |
| 15 | Since she felt as though someone had physically kicked her in the stomach , it took Shannon a moment or two to get the words out . |
| 16 | He had always delivered her to the same spot . |
| 17 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 18 | The heat was fierce that June — 102 degrees in the shade at one time — but Mrs Browning went out in it and seemed to have forgotten such scorching sun had once enervated her to the point of collapse . |
| 19 | Then she wondered suddenly if Tom Russell had known she would find it intimidating and had deliberately kept her in the dark . |
| 20 | It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva . |
| 21 | She was herself a cripple , constantly in need of the sort of attention her husband had regularly given her in the evenings . |
| 22 | Her body was racked at times when the torment had almost driven her across the corridor into Andrew 's bed . |
| 23 | Dashing into the kitchen now , she found Jessie standing at the table and squeezing a lemon into a glass and she had almost pulled her from the table towards the door before she managed to say to her , ‘ He 's … he 's downstairs in the yard . |
| 24 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 25 | He had subsequently taken her to the cinema , where she had been startled to feel his hand creep into hers . |
| 26 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
| 27 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 28 | Adam had never touched her in the office , and she was not expecting it . |
| 29 | The rocks she sat behind shielded her from the lodge and the staff-cabins . |
| 30 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |