Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] she [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her .
2 Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue .
3 I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month .
4 I got her up to seventy-five , too .
5 Herta kept her head down as I helped her off with her coat .
6 I told her off for not le not telling me she was ill .
7 I told her off for not let not telling us she was ill and she said no , no I 'm fine .
8 Sally wanted to know how I became a caddie and I filled her in on my doings since we left university .
9 My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head .
10 Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys .
11 I locked her up for soliciting , disorderly behaviour , and assault .
12 I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow .
13 We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door .
14 I waved her off from Gatwick . ’
15 Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested .
16 Velma called on Monday , erm , because I rang her up on Sunday to tell her what was happening , cos I mean she did n't know it , we signed our contract and erm I said to her well if we get a date this week , I said could , cos she 's going back to Wales tomorrow , she wo n't be back till after Easter
17 Then I rang her up with a real ‘ he said , I said ’ story , an embroilment with a friend which had worried me .
18 So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home
19 When I was quite certain that she was totally relaxed and comfortable , I brought her out of the regression and out of the hypnotic state .
20 Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation .
21 Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her .
22 I took her up on this , and the first thing we did was to bring Southall and Kizzy home .
23 She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’
24 and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm
25 I took her on from Battersea as a barely covered skeleton , and turned to Helen Lister , secretary of the Italian Greyhound club for guidance .
26 The programme was a shambles and I took her out to dinner to cheer her up .
27 For example — I feel disgusted and ashamed — I took my little girl down to my mum 's and I swear to God I remember dressing her — it was winter — but when she got to my mum 's house I took her out of the buggy and all she had on was her nappy and her socks and a blanket wrapped round her .
28 If I took her out of school I would be prosecuted , I 'm sure .
29 So I sent her off to Tesco 's .
30 I just did n't know how to cope so I sent her out of the room .
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