Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 3 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 4 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 5 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 6 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 7 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 8 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 9 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 10 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 11 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 12 | She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down . |
| 13 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |
| 14 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 15 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 16 | Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ? |
| 17 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 18 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 19 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 20 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 21 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 22 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 23 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 24 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 25 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 26 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 27 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 28 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 29 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 30 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |