Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She empowered him to get the tank , the section of drainpipe , the guttering .
2 She expected him to take the opportunity to cross-question her about the murder .
3 She said nothing , but hungrily returned to the carrion to take what more she could , as if she expected him to take the rest from her .
4 By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men .
5 It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom .
6 She made me sign the paper . ’
7 At 27 she succeeded in her dream ; her book tells us her story and how she made her dream a reality .
8 She made you look a bit of a fool in front of anyone else who was watching .
9 When she realised he had no intention of following her , she paused and jerked round her head , staring at him with those glittering blue eyes .
10 By late afternoon she realised he had no intention of returning to the office while she was in it , and she had a strong suspicion that he did not trust her .
11 Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise .
12 ‘ Interesting , ’ she said , when she realised he expected a comment .
13 As she climbed into the driver 's seat of her own car , she realised she had no plan in mind , no destination .
14 She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards .
15 She asked them to donate a collection of drawings , watercolours and sketches as well as etchings , lino prints and engravings on metal .
16 She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight .
17 At twelve she asked her to fetch a salad from the local wholefood bar .
18 At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant .
19 When I had finished she asked me to place a banknote in front of her and say ‘ lesedi ’ which means ‘ illumination ’ .
20 I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother .
21 She asked us to take a seat until called and while Kenneth readied the contents of his briefcase , I studied fellow patients , fabricating their life stories .
22 She helped them to organise a process of gathering information by drawing up a list of possible sources , and setting them writing letters .
23 She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered .
24 He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden .
25 I pressed Vimla to show me her dancing and eventually , after first consulting with Chaman , she invited me to join the household on their rounds , or ‘ going on tolly ’ as they call it .
26 Our friendship developed and she invited me to write a Fount book .
27 She pretended she had no idea what he meant .
28 But on receiving no reply , he seemed hellbent on goading her , and she found she had no chance to be passive , meek and mild , when he went on to taunt , ‘ You 're paid well , I 'll grant , but even so … ’ his eyes flicked over her good quality suit which , while not drawing attention to her figure , had been costly ‘ …
29 When she arrived at Lynx some hours later she found that the door to the office was propped open , and as soon as she entered she understood the reason .
30 She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them .
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