Example sentences of "she [adv] and [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now put her down and let her run about . |
| 2 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 3 | She should be married to Charlie now , and safely pregnant at Lady Mead with Nanny , and if Charlie were to phone her tonight and ask her to marry him tomorrow she would cry , ‘ Darling ! |
| 4 | They raped her and took her away and forced her to marry one of them . |
| 5 | Sometimes Anne was annoyed by this unnecessary furtiveness and sometimes wondered why John had not explained the situation to her sooner and let her decide whether she wished to be involved with him , but she pushed these doubts aside . |
| 6 | Police said : ‘ We were told to find her quickly and tell her to lie still on the floor . ’ |
| 7 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 8 | Just as Angel was about to leap on her , Luke picked her up and carried her yelling into the house . |
| 9 | Later he rang her up and said he had embarrassed her . |
| 10 | They tied her up and left her lying on the lounge floor . |
| 11 | He would plant her downstage and get her to start playing ’ I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls , ’ and then sabotage her work from the back wall . |
| 12 | You 're singing a different tune now from the one you sang after you 'd left her behind and got yourself arrested . |
| 13 | And then , for his sake , she did what she had read should be done : raised her legs and arched her back and held him embraced and reached her mouth to his , and began to enjoy what she did . |
| 14 | He had kissed her before and turned her to fire , but now — oh , now she was more than fire , she was a glowing rivulet of flame , pulsing with heat . |
| 15 | ‘ Leave her there and let her sleep it off , ’ said Constance . |
| 16 | He turned her about and held her imprisoned against him , the better to control her , and the better to feel her body against his own . |
| 17 | I turned her round and let her fall into it . |