Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was waiting , hopelessly , for me to present her with a completed list and I was n't going to . |
| 2 | Desmond , after the briefest of mutters , hurried after her to tuck her into the car . |
| 3 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 4 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 5 | Then one of them put her in the carrier cage and took her out while the other closed the door on her empty cage . |
| 6 | She describes her readers ' profession as ‘ dynamic and exciting ’ , all of which presents her with the problem of writing content erudite yet lively , weighty but not pompous . |
| 7 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 8 | There was enough of it to identify her as the Seren … |
| 9 | Suddenly she was deeply afraid of what awaited her in the other world beyond it . |
| 10 | We brought her in , four of us carrying her on a wicket gate . |
| 11 | She had been surprised to find that he did n't feel it beneath him to help her in the house . |
| 12 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 13 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |
| 14 | They argue that , for Whitehouse in particular , though after the war her formal ties with the Oxford Group diminished , her years of close association with it provided her with a very clear intellectual approach to the perceived ills of the modern world . |
| 15 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 16 | Penry put his arm round her to shepherd her towards the moving row of taxis . |
| 17 | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor . |
| 18 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 19 | She waited for him to invite her into the car and out for the day . |
| 20 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 21 | For him to endorse her as a ‘ major literary figure ’ sticks in his gullet . |
| 22 | Forced on to what she really meant to say , Kate fumbles for words , absurdly feeling she has to simplify , patronise in order for him to understand her in a language foreign to him , that she must not hurt his feelings , he is part of the oppressed majority , colonised daily by the people she has come to work for . |
| 23 | He was magnificent , but she must n't let the surge of unexpected excitement running through her blind her to the danger he could be to Dana . |
| 24 | It is understood some of her attackers sat on her to pin her to the floor while others battered her round the head with baseball bats . |
| 25 | I never got near enough to her to tell her about the boxing and eventually left home as soon as I could . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ he barked at her striking her across the face . |
| 27 | While she was wondering this , holding on to the rail with a wet slippery hand , feeling the heat rise and thicken , the train belched again and this movement , much more powerful than before , shifted and heaved the people around her to enclose her in a kind of human tide . |
| 28 | He pulled his hand gently from hers , and , still gentle , put his arm around her to hold her by the shoulder . |