Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the time came the mare was in foal but they failed to buy her and finally refused to do so in December 1973 . |
| 2 | And he said , ‘ Well , it 's amazing , you know , they got to build her a , a special khazi that they 're going to knock down afterwards . |
| 3 | So when Grandad 's uncle , Richard Tallentire , asked if they could bring Mother up , they agreed to let her go . |
| 4 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 5 | If a Black woman is on a visit , they tend to search her more , watch her more , because they believe Blacks are too bad . |
| 6 | After the grim birthday outing , they could try to find solace in pictures of their little girl as they want to remember her . |
| 7 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 8 | They tried to see she did n't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive . |
| 9 | Yorick and Newley ca n't confirm they tried to ring her . |
| 10 | Jacqueline , naked as a fish , ran screaming with delight from room to room , slithering out of her sisters ' hands as they tried to catch her . |
| 11 | They tried to assassinate her ; and killed off two of her closest political friends , Airey Neave and Ian Gow . |
| 12 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |
| 13 | Hari looked into his dark eyes , they seemed to hold her mesmerized as he leaned closer , his mouth only inches from her own . |
| 14 | Together they seemed to annihilate her . |
| 15 | It referred to the peculiar affinity she had with dumb creatures ; lost , wounded and deformed they seemed to seek her out . |
| 16 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |
| 17 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 18 | Sometimes they 'd seen her , other times not , but it was always more exciting to be that close . |
| 19 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 20 | Despite a major publicity campaign , only a few people thought they 'd seen her or even spoken to her . |
| 21 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 22 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 23 | Selfish , they 'd called her . |
| 24 | They 'd tricked her , and they knew . |
| 25 | Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked . |
| 26 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 27 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 28 | I also got to hear how she intended to jack in her job at the insurance brokers just as soon as they 'd taught her how to use the word-processor and go and work somewhere interesting like in an ad agency or for a travel agent . |
| 29 | She shuddered , remembering his deeply thrilling kisses and the way they 'd made her feel , even though everything within her rebelled against his easy command . |
| 30 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |