Example sentences of "[prep] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened the heavy oak doors and the dogs swept past her bounding across the drive to their master who was opening up the car boot to remove his luggage . |
| 2 | One of her co-accused in the Stompie Seipei Moeketsi trial , who supported her alibi that she was away in another state at the time of the 14-year-old 's murder , now says he lied throughout the proceedings . |
| 3 | of her calling from the blue like this , |
| 4 | It 's sad because I shall cherish the memory of her gazing at the palms of her newly extended hands and saying ‘ Fancy . |
| 5 | There was nothing she could do to stop what must surely now be inevitable , and part of her gloried in the surrender . |
| 6 | IN Ruddigore , Mad Margaret could be snapped out of her raving by the password ‘ Basingstoke ’ . |
| 7 | The likelihood of her arrival at Brighton , the possibility of her speaking in the debate on immigration , and the nice problem of what to do with the old bat on the Friday afternoon ( a vote of thanks ? a place on the platform ? a solo entrance ? ) — these matters were all now exercising Fowler 's mind , the peace of which was not helped by the lead story in the Daily Mail : ‘ MAGGIE BRIGHTON BOUND ’ . |
| 8 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 9 | Mr Y wrote me a note , ‘ would I make some notes on her , there is a possibility of her going into the unit ’ ( withdrawal unit for disruptive pupils ) . |
| 10 | Her feet felt like leaden weights , but she eventually managed to take a step , and then another , one hand held out in front of her to feel for the bed . |
| 11 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 12 | Her outburst had at least got some of her anger off her chest , but she was still a prisoner , and when fresh falls of snow were forecast she felt near the end of her tether at the prospect of being trapped any longer at Rocamar . |
| 13 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 14 | His apparent rejection of her seems like the rejection of all mankind . |
| 15 | As there was very little chance of her returning to the dale , except for occasional visits , Bob had succeeded , with a bit of self-discipline , in putting her out of his mind . |
| 16 | He laughed deep in his throat , and , even as a tiny part of her rebelled against the triumphant sound , it dissolved into nothing as his mouth closed over one nipple , his tongue flicking lazily over the hard bud . |
| 17 | Goldin is best known for her 1986 book , The Ballad of Sexual Dependency , an account of her intimates in the seamy Seventies nightlife of New York and Provincetown . |
| 18 | Only a drift of her stayed on the solemn air of the dining room — a drift of Parma violet and a heavy load on Nicandra 's mind . |
| 19 | Similarly calculated , and again perhaps no mere " encomiastic vignette " but drawn from life , is Ermold 's picture of the little Charles at his father 's hunt : By chance a little doe with the pack of hounds behind her flees Through the shady grove , and leaps through willow-woods . |
| 20 | The old newspapers that had been placed underneath her crackled at the movement . |
| 21 | She took another step forward , and saw the few personal items she had brought with her lying on the floor . |
| 22 | With her liking for the music of Simply Red , and her friendship with lead singer Mick Hucknall , does n't she dream of being a member of the band ? |
| 23 | Mina went to fetch some drinking water , taking the twins with her to bathe in the marshy pool around the spring . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's going to be a wonderful evening , ’ said Camille , ‘ with her drooling over the waiter , and me nearly dying of fright at the slightest sound , and you sitting there thinking . ’ |
| 25 | Mary Stocks , for example , helped her mother with her visiting for the Charity Organisation Society , and on leaving school became the honorary secretary of an elementary school care committee . |
| 26 | From a distance she heard him groan , and something deep within her revelled at the sound , her lips parting of their own accord in hunger for his kiss . |
| 27 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 28 | He half turned from her looking towards the house , saying now , ‘ Is Maggie ready ? ’ |
| 29 | He was turning away from her to go to the telephone . |
| 30 | and it swung away from her to shine onto the wall . |