Example sentences of "but she [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her .
2 He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat .
3 but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears
4 He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in .
5 ’ Bramble began , but she silenced him with a glare from the astonishing blue eyes .
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