Example sentences of "[v-ing] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 2 | Passing she looked at the flanks of the fields with interest |
| 3 | So I succeeded in training her to feed on the fist . |
| 4 | In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments . |
| 5 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 6 | He paused , holding her entrapped by the power of his presence , as her imagination formed its own pictures of the pleasures her sex had provided for him . |
| 7 | Briefly he refused , not wishing her to know about the tears , and then they kissed . |
| 8 | Germany interpreted her constitution as forbidding her to participate in the military operation , and Belgium refused to sell ammunition to the British army . |
| 9 | She said ‘ hello ’ to you ’ ) , teaching her to eat in the proper way ( ‘ Close your mouth when you are eating and do n't gulp your food ’ ) , and so on . |
| 10 | Her parents were expecting her to go to the college they themselves had attended . |
| 11 | Dreams and reality had collided in her shocked mind with stunning force , sending her hurtling over the edge of that invisible precipice , and the fall had broken her into a thousand agonising pieces , like brittle shards of glass that could never be whole again . |
| 12 | Scathach opened the heavy wooden door and Tallis quickly gave the horse its freedom , sending her trotting to the south , away from the disturbance . |
| 13 | Cissie had also been entertaining secret hopes that Beth just might change her mind about sending her to work at the flower shop . |
| 14 | He sighed heavily , then taking back his heavily booted foot he kicked her in the chest , sending her skidding across the gravel . |
| 15 | For three days running she returned to the house at the same time . |
| 16 | She touched a hand to her hair and smiled at Emily , indicating she alight from the coach first . |
| 17 | So saying she ran from the kitchen and up to her bedroom , leaving those round the table confused and upset . |
| 18 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 19 | To get back at Jo for not letting her go to the theatre with her , Amy has burned the book which Jo has written . |
| 20 | The hospital was worried ; they had written to Mary several times asking her to come to the hospital for the results of her tests . |
| 21 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 22 | I saw her twice between that Friday in Bamford and seeing her silhouetted on the blind on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 23 | Previous attempts at encouraging her to sit on the lavatory or the potty for this had ended in tantrums and tears so mother had given up trying . |
| 24 | Her contract with the company was temporary , allowing her to cover for the emergency created by Bob Nichols ' illness . |
| 25 | Helping her to progress from the infant she was to the adult she will become is , I believe , the hardest task of parenting . |
| 26 | That was when Ruth got to know her better , and to like her better ; and a few months later , Cousin Saul had married Gloria , taking her to live at the ramshackle old warehouse on Cyclops Wharf . |
| 27 | He held the door open , inviting her to step into the corridor . |
| 28 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 29 | His eyes narrowed and flicked briefly to the open box behind her , and suddenly , with an appalling cramping of her stomach , Meredith knew that his glance had betrayed his true purpose in pretending to want her and making her flee from the vault without properly investigating its secrets . |
| 30 | He had risen and now stood watching her go towards the side door . |