Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has n't , she got rid of them all . |
| 2 | She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers ' caves and country houses , but she found built into them a warning against too much belief . |
| 3 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 4 | When she finally came downstairs it was to find Carole insisting that , since this was their last night in the Hamptons before returning to the apartment in New York , she 'd arranged for them to have a romantic candle-lit dinner in their cottage . |
| 5 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 6 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 7 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've coloured hair lots of times , ’ Mandy muttered , not removing her eyes from the binoculars she had screwed into them . |
| 9 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 10 | And equally instinctively , she had turned with them , leaving the road and taking a cart track along the upper side of the field . |
| 11 | She had called on them when their parents died . |
| 12 | She loved to hear how she had pointed to them and said , ‘ Moo ! ’ and we had said , ‘ No , darling . |
| 13 | Guilt because she had run from them . |
| 14 | When the security forces had tortured these peasants , she had stood by them and denounced the crimes . |
| 15 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 16 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 17 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 18 | Mrs Hollidaye said she had read about them . |
| 19 | She had forgotten about them . |
| 20 | She had forgotten about them , but they were still after her . |
| 21 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |
| 22 | She had finished with them all . |
| 23 | He came in when Sophie was giving her booster injection to her client 's dog , and as soon as she had finished with them he confronted her . |
| 24 | Jannie was taking a benevolent interest , too , inviting not Bob but Tessa out to look at houses she had found for them in s.w.23 . |
| 25 | On impulse , she decided to tell him of her discoveries at the belvedere and the conclusions she had drawn from them . |
| 26 | She dug her fingers in his hair convulsively and said the words which floated on top of her mind , thoughtlessly ; if she had thought about them , she would never have said them . |
| 27 | She kept noticing the birds , here ; always before she had thought of them as ‘ singing ’ . |
| 28 | Meryl extricated a copy of the Sunday Shocker from the rack with as much nonchalance as she could muster , and hid it within the folds of her own more conservative newspaper as soon as she had paid for them both . |
| 29 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |