Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 2 | Sarah closed her eyes when he lifted her nightdress and entered her with no show of sentiment . |
| 3 | And then Raynor entered her with a strong swift movement , and the fires engulfed them both . |
| 4 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 5 | No matter how hard she protested that The Delinquents was not soft porn , the film transformed her into the sex-siren she secretly desired to become . |
| 6 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 7 | He grasped her around the waist , his hands warm and hard through the thin silk of her dress as he steadied her , and Fran felt her heart run wild . |
| 8 | He groaned , then grasped her by the buttocks and lifted her , backing her against the wall , thrusting up into her once , twice , a third time before he came explosively , feeling her shudder violently against him . |
| 9 | One large , official hand grasped her by the elbow . |
| 10 | He grasped her by the shoulders , his fingers biting in , through the thinness of her top . |
| 11 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 12 | Her doctor was convinced that most of Edith 's problems were psychosomatic , but he referred her to a specialist who was interested in such cases . |
| 13 | They promptly referred her to a housing association which has found her a three-bedroomed house . |
| 14 | A doctor who suspected anorexia referred her to a psychiatrist . |
| 15 | Blood tests revealed Louise 's haemoglobin level was down and doctors referred her to the local hospital . |
| 16 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 17 | I suspected that the lesion might by pyogenic granuloma and referred her to the dermatology outpatient clinic . |
| 18 | The test came back positive and Fiona 's doctor referred her to the top London expert in toxoplasma . |
| 19 | The coroner , Harold Price , heard at Walthamstow Coroner 's Court in north-east London that baby Kim 's GP and health visitor referred her to the social services on the day she died , said it was vital that such referrals should be made as soon as possible . |
| 20 | ‘ I posed her on the sofa . |
| 21 | Not long ago , she said in his head , one comes to rely on one 's bit of fun , and he tried her with a joke or two , but the old happy creasing of the face took a time to occur . |
| 22 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 23 | But Susan Einzig had a more significant , also more complex , place in his life : though to all appearances she and Minton were a couple , he used her as a decoy to attract into their orbit , through her role as the attractive elder woman , keen on dancing and having a good time , the lusty heterosexual students whose company Minton needed and whom , when rebuffed by Susan , he scooped up on the rebound , with mocking asides about the inadequacy of women . |
| 24 | Small animals used her as a shelter , burrowing into her rotting bowels . |
| 25 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 26 | Polly said her mother once visited her with a child in a pram . |
| 27 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 28 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 29 | The operation was a success and husband Peter , from Wythenshawe , Manchester , visited her in the ward later in the day . |
| 30 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |