Example sentences of "she [verb] the [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a sense of foreboding , she read the note attached to one of the stems . |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever it is , it seems to please you , ’ Lucy said , snatching the message pad from Doreen 's hand , then found herself full of misgivings as she read the information directed to herself . |
| 3 | She scanned the displays set round the visor on the inside of the helmet . |
| 4 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 5 | Sh she got the door closed ? |
| 6 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 7 | The 11-year-old , identified only as Donna , was playing in Albert Park , Middlesbrough , when she got the finger stuck in a hole on the back of the bench . |
| 8 | She wants the legislation changed so that those people can get help . |
| 9 | She wants the sentences increased so it never happens again . |
| 10 | She wants the killer caught for their sake . |
| 11 | She wants the killer caught for their sake . |
| 12 | Ace 's voice was slurred with exhaustion , but Kate 's ear was finely tuned and she caught the bitterness hidden behind the carefully banked anger . |
| 13 | She has the dress made |
| 14 | Her eyes flashed a fiery retort as she found the notes taken from her hand , and a magazine put there instead . |
| 15 | One day on the weary way up from school a truck stacked with furniture ground past Martha ; when she reached Nana 's house she found the truck stopped in the overgrown yard next door , and a fat woman in a pink dress buying soda pop for a brood of children who stood around her looking fearfully at their new home . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it was with a great sense of relief that she found the patio deserted save for a handful of hotel guests drinking beer and enjoying the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 17 | To achieve this the nurse needs more than facts and skills ; she needs the capabilities represented by the higher levels of the learning hierarchy . |
| 18 | On her lips she tasted the dust raised by the horses ' hooves and the wheels of the carriage . |
| 19 | She used the training given by her mother 's Suzy Lamplugh Trust — which gives women advice about safety — to reason with her attacker and offer him her car . |
| 20 | She let the men dressed in yellow safety hats and donkey jackets in after they showed an apparent ID card . |
| 21 | She says the dogs escaped and upset bins . |
| 22 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 23 | He saw her expression of surprise as she noticed the automatic gripped in his hand . |
| 24 | In the magazine profile , Ms Sheehy divulges that she interviewed the woman named by Mrs Clinton . |
| 25 | She slammed the door shut and went back to the window . |
| 26 | Sliding into the driver 's seat , she slammed the door shut and turned her key in the ignition . |
| 27 | Furiously she opened her bedroom door and , flicking the light on , went in , then turned to serve him a final volley before she slammed the door shut in his face . |
| 28 | Her father squinted down at the page but she banged the book shut and slid it back on the shelf . |
| 29 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 30 | Liberal Democrat Councillor Rosemary Cooper said she had received complaints about the policy , which she claimed the council used to ‘ cream off ’ commission from the insurance companies . |