Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 2 | She was told by the Polytechnics Central Admissions System , PCAS , that she would breach her contract with them if she joined the Universities Central Council on Admissions , UCCA . |
| 3 | You , I mean , if she if she likes the girl , which she obviously does , why not just rap her door or wait till she sees her and say you know |
| 4 | And she went with you because she wanted the money . |
| 5 | I dropped the axe , wiped my temples and joined her where she held the incandescent bung away from her skin . |
| 6 | I remember one time when Auntie Margaret back-answered to me grandma and me grandma could n't get to her so she tipped the table upon her . |
| 7 | Damian said in a voice thick with desire , dragging air into his lungs momentarily , staring at her with glittering eyes before his mouth claimed hers again , deeper , more demanding , and Rachel 's fingers were stroking his throat , her mouth moving blindly against his , and she felt his hands on her hips , hard and shaking , pressing her against him until she felt the evidence of his own fierce excitement hard against her . |
| 8 | Sexually , he never touched her until she took the option to do that . ’ |
| 9 | He watched her until she left the window , then he watched the window where she 'd been , but he wearied of that finally , and of the chill in his feet . |
| 10 | She 'd only come to him because she knew the price Lord C would extract from her . |
| 11 | Georgina kept quiet about her because she had the wit to see that knowledge of the affair would strengthen her motive for killing her husband , at least in the eyes of the jury . |
| 12 | Carrie said , ‘ Auntie Lou said he was angry with her because she married the mine-owner 's son . |
| 13 | He set her on her feet without a word and steadied her while she manoeuvred the crutch into position . |
| 14 | Penry stood over her while she drank the milk , then put a hand to the lamp , but she smiled at him coaxingly . |
| 15 | That had been bothering her since she hit the City . |
| 16 | He asked her whether she liked The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam . |
| 17 | It was just what she needed — to see him , to have the reassurance of him before she faced the evening at the château . |
| 18 | And yesterday his heartbroken wife Jane slammed police for failing to find him after she raised the alarm 48 hours earlier . |
| 19 | Men seemed to float up to her , encircling her before she reached the bottom step , and she felt Lucenzo 's fingers leave hers as he was crowded out . |
| 20 | Eight o'clock in the morning , and if she went to work then he hoped still to be in time to catch her before she locked the front door and shut out the intrusion of a man from the Service . |
| 21 | The Land Rover was almost upon her before she heard the throbbing engine , and she spun round partly in a daze and certainly angered . |
| 22 | Quick as a flash he was at her side , catching her before she hit the ground , his arm hooking behind her knees to scoop her up into the air . |
| 23 | She ordered him to dance for her before she bestowed the treats . |
| 24 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 25 | I did n't ask for you to come down , ’ Miss Jarman greeted her as she reached the bottom . |
| 26 | Julius followed her , and stopped her as she reached the doorway . |
| 27 | You 've certainly had them in the past , ’ she reminded him , ignoring the small , unexpected twist of pain inside her as she said the words . |
| 28 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 29 | An eerie feeling of isolation wafted through her as she heard the unspeaking hairless guide slide the lift back downstairs . |
| 30 | Shock assailed her as she made the discovery that his insults did not merely provoke anger ; they had the power to distress . |