Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be sure and tap the door , else you 'll catch 'er in 'er desserbil . |
| 2 | PAMELA : Who has she with her ? |
| 3 | Cos she has n't had much success lately has she with her Blind Date people ? |
| 4 | Has she in fact any concept of God at all , or simply a ‘ transcendent life principle ’ ? 27 What is that other than simply a human conception ? |
| 5 | She was tired , emotionally and physically tired , and the champagne made her cease to worry about whether she was right to allow the Burgermeister to cosset her with flowers and champagne . |
| 6 | Although he felt sure he would win her in the end , he was annoyed at her continuing coyness . |
| 7 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 8 | She was arranging to have an abortion when her father found out , and told her if she went through with this , he would no longer consider her to be part of his family . |
| 9 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 10 | In the Italian analogues the wife 's punishment is her realization that she has been tricked , and the implication that her " lover " did not consider her worth spending his own money on ; there , this is reflected by the wife 's helplessness when the trick is sprung — quite the opposite of what we have in the Shipman 's Tale . |
| 11 | He did have a habit of railroading her into things , but she knew she would be crazy to refuse . |
| 12 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 13 | Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child-boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare . |
| 14 | The fishmonger blessed her for calling and wished her a continued pleasant time in their beautiful city . |
| 15 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 16 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 17 | This , Emecheta explains , is a very strong goddess of the Ibos , so strong that Hausa soldiers dare not attack her for fear of being made impotent . |
| 18 | You called your wife a tart , which is your business and hers , but you also said that if you 'd known where she 'd gone you would have caught her at it . |
| 19 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 20 | In court his wife Christine admitted a lesbian relationship and said her husband had once caught her with another woman . |
| 21 | Miss Maynard 's invitation had caught her off guard . |
| 22 | And because , somehow , Luke Hunter had caught her off balance with his flowers and cryptic messages . |
| 23 | He 'd caught her by surprise , that was all . |
| 24 | He had caught her in his arms , and there had been a soaring delight , an exchange of joy , wordless , mindless , stronger and infinitely sweeter than anything he had ever known . |
| 25 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 26 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 27 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 28 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 29 | He thought she was worrying about Midge 's reaction to the news when they had telephoned her from Richie 's flat . |
| 30 | She said Suzanne had telephoned her from Germany . |