Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I ca n't put down exactly what she was like , only words that summon her to my mind , and this worries me , but it does n't really matter , since I know what she looked like , and this is being written just for me anyway .
2 The result is a set of pictures that expose her as a fabulous vamp with more definition than Wolf and more powerful pectorals than Panther .
3 She thanked the driver , lifted the latch of the low iron gate and took four steps that brought her to the front door .
4 At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist .
5 It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire .
6 Opo would ease between her legs and take her for rides .
7 This guy , yeah , he falls in love with this woman , takes her to his apartment and slowly , he 's a surgeon and he slowly amputates all her arms and legs and keeps her in a box .
8 He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away .
9 Little Gabriels , out of control most of the time and impossible to educate , but with a fund of kindness that led them to rescue and foster wounded animals and plague her with them in the home .
10 He closed his eyes and held her against him , his mouth against her neck .
11 In her decoration ‘ Lilith ’ ( Museum Boymans-van Beuningen , Rotterdam — watercolour sketch at the Tate Gallery ) it is as if she has taken one of these nudes and stood her against a tree , where , with arms wrapped around her head and one leg twisted into the other she writhes provocatively for the pleasure of the viewer .
12 She signalled that they should lower their voices and follow her round the building to a new window smashed through the wall of the cottage .
13 He held her by the shoulders and kissed her in continental fashion on the cheeks .
14 ‘ It 's no good ‘ effing and blinding ’ , ’ he remonstrated mildly , holding her firmly by the shoulders and inspecting her with a brilliantly dispassionate gaze .
15 Removing his hand from his pocket , but leaving hers in place , he put his arm round her shoulders and hugged her to his side .
16 Mamma put her ample arm round Noreen 's shaking shoulders and brought her to the kitchen table and made her sit down .
17 He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt .
18 He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious .
19 Dr Neil stepped back so swiftly that she almost fell ; he seized her by the shoulders and held her from him .
20 Marc looped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her to a more comfortable position beneath him .
21 Before she could answer he grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her against him , his fingers biting cruelly into her skin .
22 Still holding her , he locked the door behind them , then released her wrist to take her by the shoulders and pin her against the wall .
23 Sharpe said grimly , then he put an arm round Lucille 's shoulders and steered her towards the ballroom where , because the orchestra had been engaged till dawn , the music still played and a few last couples still danced .
24 Mr Browning sighed and put his arms round his wife 's heaving shoulders and drew her to him .
25 I came round the desk then and raised Mrs. Porter by slipping one arm around her shoulders and heaving her into a sitting position .
26 Then he was smiling and laying a soft kiss against her lips before slipping one strong arm around her shoulders and leading her across the beach back to the house .
27 She stretched Thérèse on the rack until her bones cracked , tore off her breasts with red-hot pincers , then flogged her with twigs and broke her on the wheel .
28 Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness .
29 It also contain antibodies that protect her against infections — and it costs nothing !
30 On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular .
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