Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] she under " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one man in particular , as I said ; he seemed to have her under his control . ’ |
| 2 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 3 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 4 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman had taken her under their protective wing and such master opportunities did n't need any convincing that the success of the soap could be translated into success in the record business . |
| 5 | Here she had first met Ion Manescu who had taken her under his wing — she was an invaluable conduit as to what was going on in Moscow and sympathetic to the Romanian régime . |
| 6 | The group who had taken her under their wing were Parisian bandits , who had taken to harassing the Nazis since the occupation . |
| 7 | He 's the sort of grandfather I would have liked to have , ’ Paige said shortly , then softened her tone as she thought of the kindly gentleman who had taken her under his wing . |
| 8 | The next second he had put her under the shower and turned on the cold tap . |
| 9 | He was only interested in himself and his business , and had married her under false pretences . |