Example sentences of "[prep] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What yer think about 'er round the back ? |
| 2 | He 'll end up running after her along the platform , bundling books and plaice and Government papers in through the window of the carriage at her as the train moves out … |
| 3 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 4 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 5 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 6 | I skipped after her down the street . |
| 7 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 8 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 10 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 11 | The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard . |
| 12 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 13 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 14 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 15 | ( I can remember , when I was a child , watching with amazement as my book-loving grandmother burned a copy of She on the sitting-room fire . ) |
| 16 | Leo Vincey is forced by the events of She towards the same decision as the one which destroyed his counterpart Kallikrates . |
| 17 | The status of SHE within the inquiry had also steadily risen . |
| 18 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 19 | As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor . |
| 20 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 21 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 22 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 23 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 24 | Below her on the lawn she could see the sculpted form of a stone fountain with water spilling from its lips into a fish- and lily-filled pond . |
| 25 | Then they were on the cliff road for Repulse Bay , and the sea glittered below her to the right . |
| 26 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 27 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 28 | Juliet is overpowered by passion when she first meets Romeo , and yet still considers his welfare when he is below her in the garden , and the rashness of a contract that is too sudden . |
| 29 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 30 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |