Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She laid a spell on me too … ’ |
| 2 | She laid a hand on his arm . |
| 3 | She laid a hand on his arm , her eyes warm . |
| 4 | She laid a hand on Shannon 's arm . |
| 5 | She laid a hand on the dog 's woolly head ‘ Quiet , Hector ! ’ |
| 6 | She laid a hand on his arm and spoke quietly . |
| 7 | She laid a hand on Quigley 's shoulder . |
| 8 | She stifled a yawn as she laid a hand on Jake 's . |
| 9 | Then she laid a hand on Ronni 's arm and smiled into her pale face . |
| 10 | She laid a hand on his arm . |
| 11 | I 'd have scratched the eyes from her head , countess or no , before she laid a finger on you ! ’ |
| 12 | She planned a thesis on the works of Carlo Crivelli , so briefly mentioned in 1894 by Berenson , so little mentioned since . |
| 13 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |
| 14 | And Susan thought she could transform the entire environment once she got a grip on it . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , she got a grip on it with her mind , and concentrated . |
| 16 | Well their Rose , she got a bit on the once when she went up there and she come over here she said to us would we take it up and change . |
| 17 | Swiftly she got a hold on her wayward thoughts . |
| 18 | fell Thursday night , she got up to go to toilet during night and fell , Michael was sleeping there fortunately cos he 's working in Yorkshire and she got a pain on her elbow anyway in the morning , so he took her to hospital and she 'd fractured and they operated on her , same day , two hour operation , I have n't heard anything yet have we , we rang |
| 19 | A couple of her cats friends down last night so she wasted a couple on them . |
| 20 | Brought up at a cultivated and tolerant court and doted on as an only child , she became a catch on the German dynastic marriage market . |
| 21 | Her ear-rings shook in an agitated way as she finished her wine ; then , eyes downcast , she traced a stain on the table cloth . |
| 22 | She traced a line on the tablecloth with her nail . |
| 23 | She was about to but she found a sticker on book |
| 24 | She found a spot on Nowak 's calf that was red and swollen like a severe mosquito bite . |
| 25 | She booked a seat on it and took a taxi to the terminus . |
| 26 | When Sara got out of her car , she noticed a man on the doorstep of the house . |
| 27 | Just then she noticed a mark on the ceiling . |
| 28 | It was not until she noticed a bill on Todney 's desk , to be authorized by Stephen as complimentary , that she knew his half-brother had checked out of the hotel without so much as saying goodbye to her . |
| 29 | As she told a journalist on the newspaper Today — who was obviously rather disappointed — ‘ I never feed my candidates . |
| 30 | She dropped a hand on the child 's dark head and stared pleadingly at Julia . |