Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't fit for a young girl , he 'd explained in his thick brogue , and her half-brother had grinned and mocked her behind his back . |
| 2 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 3 | The sister who 'd protested and overruled her by bringing in another doctor to relieve Brückner 's suffering . |
| 4 | She did n't actually hear him come back into the room ; it was just the feeling of being watched that alerted her to his presence , and she turned her head warily . |
| 5 | He looked surprised at her request for a word in private , but readily agreed and led her across the hotel reception hall , out through a door at the rear of the building and into the garden . |
| 6 | Mina 's sister , too , was childless and her husband had humiliated and rejected her by marrying a second wife . |
| 7 | Mrs. Jarrett , whose hobbies include china collecting , Scrabble , reading and ‘ a little bingo ’ , spoke of the very many people who had helped and supported her over the years . |
| 8 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 9 | The man in the bushes by the gate still worried her but I found it easy to isolate him from our friendship , although she felt now that he was trying to gas her ; the fumes from someone 's central heating outlet , discernible on the otherwise pure air , had inspired and confirmed her in this idea . |
| 10 | Timing is of the essence , which is why so many youthful romances go awry ; she is just getting somewhere with her career but he has already arrived and wants her to be there for him , or vice versa . |
| 11 | Embarrassment more acute than anything she 'd ever known before rooted her to the spot as the sounds of laughter and applause rang out all around her . |
| 12 | And she went forward as if some irresistible force , slowly gathering behind her back , had suddenly erupted and hurled her against him . |
| 13 | White peace descended and surrounded her like a tent of cool white gauze . |
| 14 | The US government was also critical of the lack of progress towards prosecuting those responsible for the murder of Michael Devine , a US citizen , in the northern province of El Petén on June 8 , 1990 , and the abductors of Diana Marck Ortiz , a nun of US nationality who later identified those who had tortured and raped her as agents of the National Police . |
| 15 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 16 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |