Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howell ( this volume ) takes up some of these issues in her paper where she argues against the interpretation of ritual as catharsis among the Chewong . |
| 2 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 3 | Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady , a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed , Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class . |
| 4 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 5 | On her way home she remembers that she forgot to buy any pet food so she returns to the shop to buy some . |
| 6 | She is both the voice of cartoon character Holli Would ( geddit ? ) and her actual incarnation once she springs from the pen of cartoonist Jack Deebs ( Gabriel Byrne ) . |
| 7 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 8 | She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light . |
| 9 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 10 | If she goes through the checkout without a tantrum praise her behaviour ( ‘ You 're a big girl behaving so well ’ ) . |
| 11 | Go that way so if she goes into the Hea the Health Centre and says , you know that she 's from Hill |
| 12 | ‘ Papa , tell Belle Maman that if she looks at the baby like that , I shall get only her hat in the picture … ’ |
| 13 | We may , for example , think to ourselves that it would be very useful to ask a housewife if she works outside the house at all , and this sounds easy enough in our heads . |
| 14 | Yes , yes well we ca n't talk you see , we do n't know , we do n't know what 's happening , but she 's been suffering a lot with her back just now and she put that off you know that because she 's not attending the meetings , she ca n't sit , and if she comes to the meetings she ca n't sit down , she stands up , props herself against the wall and stand up right at the back so , we do n't know you see |
| 15 | ‘ And it looks like we 'll be moving there , if she sticks to the asking price , so you 'd better get used to the idea . |
| 16 | You know , look , I did a deal with Mrs Thatcher in nineteen eighty six , that I would n't open up many of these issues , and if she sticks to the deal , I 'll stick to the deal . |
| 17 | That 's what I said , If she sticks to the deal , I 'll stick to the deal . |
| 18 | If she fails at the substantive hearing , that will be because the court will then have decided that it would not be in [ J. 's ] best interest for his life to be artificially saved or prolonged . |
| 19 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
| 20 | She 's wrong because she falls into the latter category . |
| 21 | Mind you , I do n't think they 're married either of them because she comes under the name Miss and well her name 's Estelle and he 's Paul , but she 's known as because I 've had two or three people ask me about her because she , she deals in insurance . |
| 22 | Councillors in Harrow , North London , wo n't allow that because she lives outside the school 's catchment area . |
| 23 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 24 | Ah ha , you say — that 's just because she lives in the country now . |
| 25 | ‘ She goes to school at Sanderstown College , and I 've got to know her well because she sails on the Mantela every holiday . |
| 26 | ‘ Only while she remains in the house , ’ Doreen argued . |
| 27 | She sits me down in Jamie 's heap of a living room while she clatters in the kitchenette . |
| 28 | while she sits on the bench like a pagan |
| 29 | Almost invariably , the cover imagery depicts the male figure in a state of total preoccupation with the woman , while she gazes beyond the frame , engaging the viewer ( you , the reader ) in a complicit acknowledgement of her sexual power over him . |
| 30 | While she dawdles in the Courtyard of the Lions , he departs in a frenzy of whips , elbows , hooves , all rapidly obscured by a dustcloud . |