Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 3 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 4 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 5 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 6 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 7 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 8 | Mrs Smith needs someone to help her with the practical side of caring , to arrange respite breaks , coordinate the nursing input and ensure that the hospital and local authority services work together with her . |
| 9 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
| 10 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 11 | ‘ I keep her under the white rock . |
| 12 | As I follow her into the front room someone whispers to Rufus : ‘ She got him under her thumb , I think . ’ |
| 13 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 14 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 15 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 16 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 17 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 18 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 19 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 20 | At three-thirty Kattina appeared , and stepped into a taxi which took her into the bustling centre of Cairo . |
| 21 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 23 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 24 | Can you get her into the medical centre ? |
| 25 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 26 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 27 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 28 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 29 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 30 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |