Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 2 | THE girl found guilty of giving a religious education teacher a sweet spiked with the hallucinogenic drug LSD has branded the schoolpals she says tricked her into handing it over as ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 3 | She 'd goaded him into doing what he 'd done , perhaps even hoping he would take her against her will , she realised in despair . |
| 4 | She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it . |
| 5 | That if she 'd triggered it by asking questions she might be drowned in the flood of pain that would be released ? |
| 6 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 7 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 8 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 9 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 10 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 11 | I just hope she gets arrested herself for wasting police time . |
| 12 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 13 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 14 | Save for the nuts and honey which Tom had given her she had eaten nothing since leaving the cabin of Simon the Trapper . |
| 15 | His cool irony brought swift colour to her cheeks as she recalled how furiously she had condemned him for doing just that . |
| 16 | She had rebuked him for drinking a bit too much beforehand . |
| 17 | Or she could say that Derek had always had charming manners and was in the habit of commending ladies on their scent , even if it smelled of Alexandrian sewers , and sound as though she had lost something worth keeping — and inevitably regretful . |
| 18 | She meant that , once she had talked him into releasing her from this crazy engagement , she would be free to take up her own life once more . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Millie 's mistress , frustrated at being parted from the family she had devoted herself to rearing and longing for the freedom to travel and relax , stayed loyal to her husband 's ambitions . |
| 20 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 21 | She complained bitterly about her husband being so confused and his always forgetting what she had told him without having any insight into her own ability to confuse him and other people . |
| 22 | Twice Ferdinando had come down to spend the night with her and twice she had refused him without offering any adequate reason . |
| 23 | ‘ When she arrived at his flat one night and told him that she had left me after admitting everything , he was furious . |
| 24 | She had driven herself into doing what would hurt most ; she had decided to take Constanza from her father . |
| 25 | She had taken it for granted that if Isobel accompanied Hank to the ball , it would be a kind of aunt and nephew relationship , but now she wondered . |
| 26 | Maybe she had accused him of doing appalling things with Badger . |
| 27 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 28 | She had accused him of leading her on . |
| 29 | I said well I think she realized it came to so he 's definitely booked the high court so she 's , she 's done nothing about changing him or anything like that . |