Example sentences of "she [verb] me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village .
2 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 .
3 I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward .
4 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 .
5 She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby .
6 And she asked me for the fifty P .
7 I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times .
8 She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down .
9 She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony .
10 Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more .
11 She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle .
12 ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time .
13 She telephoned me from a public call-box somewhere .
14 She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door .
15 The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate .
16 She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’
17 We were delighted , and at a convenient interlude she took me to a favourite uncle , an Air Vice-Marshal .
18 She tells me with a peculiar girlie sham .
19 Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school .
20 I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there .
21 Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question .
22 She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete .
23 She reminds me of a small animal at bay .
24 When Suor Eusebia saw me she greeted me with an approving smile .
25 Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet .
26 She watches me through a black veil that hangs from a black hat .
27 I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles .
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