Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee . |
| 2 | There was a noticeable hesitation before Tamar rose and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 3 | I rose and faced her across the table . |
| 4 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 5 | He finished dressing , then came and held her by the shoulders , kissing her lightly on the mouth . |
| 6 | Roman took her arm in a grip she could n't break and marched her down the path . |
| 7 | Father bought the cheeses on a counter-account with Mrs Thomas : he took the cheeses she made and supplied her with the equivalent value of goods and animal foods . |
| 8 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 9 | When he turned and saw her on the ground he strode back , hunkering down beside her . |
| 10 | He looked surprised at her request for a word in private , but readily agreed and led her across the hotel reception hall , out through a door at the rear of the building and into the garden . |
| 11 | He sighed and took her by the arm . |
| 12 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
| 13 | Peter nodded and drew her to the rail of the river-walk to look over the side . |
| 14 | Mrs. Jarrett , whose hobbies include china collecting , Scrabble , reading and ‘ a little bingo ’ , spoke of the very many people who had helped and supported her over the years . |
| 15 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 16 | Two days after Christmas at her home in Banbury two men pushed her through her front door … one of them punching and kicking her to the ground . |
| 17 | She had such hope for the future , such belief that he would love , nurture and protect her from the difficulties that lay ahead . |
| 18 | I suppose they might try and sellotape her to the walls of their cells . |
| 19 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 20 | Embarrassment more acute than anything she 'd ever known before rooted her to the spot as the sounds of laughter and applause rang out all around her . |
| 21 | Again she heard the boys ' warm approving voices , voices that left her outside the heat of that dangerous moment . |
| 22 | Dorothy would leave and abandon her at the very idea . |
| 23 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 24 | A worthy father should pass the tests of strength and endurance , and so she rewards the efforts of those who are still fit enough to subdue and defend her at the end of the arduous rut . |
| 25 | Jones , an interesting newcomer with a simmering , highly charged air , is the daughter of an absentee Italian mother , which does not endear her to the xenophobic locals and an unemployed woodsman father , Seiriol Tomos , who disappears and leaves her in the care of his cold , embittered sister Maggie , Sue Jones-Davies giving everyone very beady looks . |
| 26 | He looked momentarily surprised and then , after throwing Luke a somewhat triumphant look , he smiled and took her by the hand , and led her through into the living-room . |
| 27 | Polly pushed her arms through the webbing straps that reminded her of the restrainer her eldest sister used to stop her adventurous offspring clambering out of their prams and buggies . |
| 28 | Dreamer came up to Tallis and tugged and twisted her from the frozen ground . |
| 29 | Laura gave Jacqui a clear brief about the sort of dresses and blouses she wanted and sent her to the Victoria and Albert Museum to research styles . |
| 30 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |