Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you believed he was possessed , she whispered between her sobs , everything was explained . |
| 2 | Only Madame Pompadour beside her was motionless , and Meredith shot her a startled look when she whispered under her breath , ‘ Lucenzo , Lucenzo , ’ in a voice of infinite disappointment . |
| 3 | As she stood in the wings , she whispered to her daughter Carol , ‘ What am I doing here ? ’ |
| 4 | She whispered to her husband , as Marion stooped gracefully into the hut , ‘ Did you ever see such beauty ? |
| 5 | Smiling , she whispered to her husband . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's all for you , ’ she whispered to her son . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I am , ’ she admitted to her patient in a low , emotion-filled tone . |
| 8 | Both Hathor and her potential victims became exceedingly drunk and merry , so she failed at her task . |
| 9 | If she failed in her task she would probably be killed anyway , after first watching Edmund die . |
| 10 | Was it in there that she met with her accident ? |
| 11 | ‘ The little girl in the film Poltergeist had her audience sitting on the edge of their seats when she revealed to her family that the strange creatures from the TV were back to haunt them all . |
| 12 | He gazed at her bent head as she read through her notes , and she looked up and smiled faintly at him . |
| 13 | She dipped her finger in scented black paste that she applied to her eyelashes . |
| 14 | She applied to her employer for a redundancy payment but was refused because of lack of funds . |
| 15 | She pinned on her photo-pass , without which no Tory is properly dressed , and , avoiding her colleagues , walked briskly along the front in the direction of the conference centre . |
| 16 | One she carried tightly rolled up in her hand ; the other she pinned inside her coat . |
| 17 | As she climbed the stairs Sally could hear the low voices and the giggles coming from the bedroom she shared with her sister and knew what it meant . |
| 18 | When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister . |
| 19 | Without her realising it , Fabia 's thoughts drifted back to the Gloucestershire home she shared with her parents in the village of Hawk Lacey . |
| 20 | Emma married Richard and Mrs Funnell died , leaving Peggy a fortune that she shared with her daughter , mother and ‘ Auntie May ’ . |
| 21 | A very straight military-type man was waiting for her when she reached her own pigeon-hole , which she shared with her assistant ( off sick ) . |
| 22 | Lisa Benner , 22 , was last seen on January 8 in the Hythe area of Colchester when she left the mobile home she shared with her boyfriend . |
| 23 | The 22-year-old , who was five feet two inches tall and weighed just six stone , disappeared on January 8 after leaving the mobile home she shared with her boyfriend near the Hythe in Colchester . |
| 24 | Her body was found in bed by her step mother at the house she shared with her boyfriend in Wanborough near Swindon . |
| 25 | Other witnesses corroborated this evidence , and mentioned that the bedroom where Esther Dyson slept in the house she shared with her brother was splattered with blood . |
| 26 | She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother . |
| 27 | On her visit Diana took France by storm and she has shown the world how happy she is carrying out official engagements on her own — in contrast to the Korean trip which she shared with her husband and which exposed their coldness towards each other when they spent most days unsmiling and glum . |
| 28 | Without a backward look , Beth went from the room , along the softly lit hallway and on to the bedroom which she shared with her husband . |
| 29 | She shared with her husband a love of travel , and learned from his expertise something of the finer qualities of wine and food wliich helped her , when his illness necessitated it , to enter journalism and become the breadwinner . |
| 30 | Sally-Anne was delighted by his changed manner ; he always looked so charming when he smiled — even the scar seemed to disappear a little , and as she was always ready for fun herself — a trait she shared with her papa — and the game looked like being fun , she said , eyes shining , ‘ Oh , I play to win , too , but a good servant always does what the Master commands , ’ and she cast her eyes down in the manner of a stage domestic registering submission . |