Example sentences of "she [verb] i [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 2 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 4 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 5 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 6 | She led me into a bed-sitting-room . |
| 7 | She led me into a parlour . |
| 8 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 9 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 10 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 11 | She led me through the throng . |
| 12 | Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes . |
| 13 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 14 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 15 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 16 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 17 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 18 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 19 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 20 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 21 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 22 | She wants me off the case . |
| 23 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 24 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 25 | I payed with my Vista card and although she was a hockey player , when she invited me to the opera I igried to go . |
| 26 | ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’ |
| 27 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
| 28 | But she stopped me with a look . |
| 29 | I confided in a teacher and she referred me to a counsellor . |
| 30 | She grasped me by the hand . |