Example sentences of "as they [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they bundled her down the stairs she must have fainted , because the next thing she could recollect was being wheeled along an endless corridor that smelled of disinfectant . |
| 2 | Then she heard all of them , crashing through brush and low branches as they followed her towards the road . |
| 3 | The central figure is the child , Little Nell , who deeply engaged the sympathies of contemporary readers as they followed her through the hardships of her pilgrimage , made in company with the senile grandfather whom she strives to protect , from the London curiosity shop to the sanctuary of a village where her sufferings end in a peaceful death . |
| 4 | Lizzie and Henry again looked at each other as they followed her into the room , and sat on the couch . |
| 5 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd take your clothes off now and prove it to you , ’ he said thickly , and his hands were shaking as they held her by the hips . |
| 7 | His eyes narrowed speculatively as they watched her in the mirror . |