Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed easier than confronting her in their bedroom . |
| 2 | He pushed the dress free and lifted her into his arms , walking to the bed , and Maggie made a small whimpering noise she did n't even recognise , a softly feminine noise of submission . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I know you 'll treat 'er proper an' get 'er on 'er feet again , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ you ai n't one for 'anky-panky , that you ai n't . |
| 4 | Backed by just one woman trainee officer she confronted the suspect in alley off Lawrence Road , the scene of an attack in December 1991 that left her with a smashed up face . |
| 5 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand you are married to a man who , on the surface at least , appears to be more attentive to his mother 's needs than to yours , try not to become upset and regard her as a threat or a rival , and avoid jumping to the conclusion that your marriage is a failure and that you are unloved . |
| 7 | ‘ Take her away from Woodborough Junior and send her to St Saviour 's . ’ |
| 8 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 9 | Barbara Coleman stopped pouring and fixed her with a very severe look . |
| 10 | The magazine Fair Lady carries an advertisement in which a white woman addresses the reader : ‘ I discuss family planning with my domestic and take her to the nearest clinic . |
| 11 | Beryl also welcomed Rita Quick and thanked her for coming to deputise for Molly at the afternoon session on Devising Display Items . |
| 12 | He was courteous and considerate and treated her like someone so very special . |
| 13 | If that was all that separated her from childhood , it was n't much . |
| 14 | It was being made to feel redundant that brought her to a standstill . |
| 15 | And it is the latter that preoccupies her in Playing in The Dark , a slim , supple volume of three essays exploring ‘ whiteness and the literary imagination ’ . |
| 16 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 17 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 18 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 19 | ‘ Whatever is it ? ’ shrieked the old lady , shaking her loose and holding her at arm 's length . |
| 20 | I arranged to see Isabelle alone and told her of my feelings . |
| 21 | My next move was to persuade Miss Hildegard Fritz-Denneville to be finally independent and join her in partnership as an art dealer , starting a new career . |
| 22 | She beat the 24-year-old woman , stripped her naked and tied her to the balcony . |
| 23 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 24 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 25 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 26 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 27 | And yet he was immaculate , his hair groomed and beaded with rubies ; his tunic an achingly sweet shade of pink that was almost white , edged with black ; his trousers of a blue that reminded her of the summer skies of her youth . |
| 28 | Yanto could see she was sold on the idea Then he pulled her close and kissed her on the lips . |
| 29 | But Mrs Spence claims he then turned nasty and threatened her with a pistol and syringe full of morphine . |
| 30 | When she saw her gesture performed by a sister who had been admiring and imitating her from earliest childhood , she felt a certain unease : the adult gesture did not fit an eleven-year-old child . |