Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] she " in BNC.

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1 It was this , his wife had said , which he had intended to gas her with , using the fumes from the car 's exhaust .
2 According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne .
3 The Supreme Court in Toronto backed his claim that he had not intended to kill her .
4 Wightman told police he hit his girlfriend 's head against the bathroom door or wall , but said he had not intended to kill her .
5 If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ?
6 I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone .
7 But Claire Fraser was out there and he had undertaken to find her and persuade her to come home .
8 She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on .
9 He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham .
10 ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’
11 He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place .
12 Besides , now that she had stopped walking she did n't seem to be able to stop herself from shivering .
13 Oh has she remarried has she ?
14 ‘ I 'm sure she would have died without the kiss of life and I would have been devastated to lose her .
15 And if he had a full-time job he was expected to support her and her children .
16 By the fireplace , there was what was known as a ‘ Turkish corner ’ , protected by a screen , in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her .
17 Bathsheba , however , knew that he had come to see her , and felt extremely guilty .
18 Anne said indignantly to Sarah who had come to see her , but Sarah thought the world was well rid of him .
19 A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life .
20 And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office .
21 He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote .
22 Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore .
23 Julie is devastated to discover she is adopted and she sets out to find her natural parents .
24 She hid it away behind a bright , brittle insouciance which plainly worried Elise to death , but for several nights wept silently into her pillow , utterly shattered to find she 'd wanted Penry 's child quite desperately without even realising it .
25 ‘ Well , I 'd better find the boats for Venice , ’ she sighed , resigned to the fact that no one had come to meet her .
26 The impression lingered that her mother had not come to find her , and that her mother had not been pleased to have her returned , for Rachaela was instantly slapped .
27 So this woman she was lost , not because of what she 'd done , but because , simply , she had never ever been found , and Jesus had come to find her , he had come to rescue her , he had come to save her .
28 He gazed up at her , huge brown eyes unblinking , and made little , soft dove , like noises she believed designed to encourage her .
29 When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch .
30 He 'd have wished to own her , body and soul , to possess her .
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