Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 2 | I lit a cigarette as I waited and turned to find her leaning on the doorway , arms folded . |
| 3 | He turned , to find her chewing on a loaf of bread , watching him . |
| 4 | He forgave her , and then a week later he and Keeley came home from the Beaux Arts Club to find her sitting on the basement steps , smiling nice as pie . |
| 5 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 6 | She raised her eyes to his face , but he could see no flash of emotion there , nothing of the slightly vulnerable girl who 'd tried to hide her hurt under an efficient exterior . |
| 7 | As her door began to open she grabbed for the telephone , then dropped the receiver as Luke appeared . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps an escort , ’ hinted Isabel , worried that Matilda was going to suggest she wait for the good father 's return . |
| 9 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 10 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 11 | She 'd only got five minutes in which to change out of this crumpled dress and fix her make-up before interviewing yet another applicant for the job of a daily nanny to help her look after the twins . |
| 12 | You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely . |
| 13 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 14 | I was trying to persuade her to move to a retirement flat in Waverley Road . ’ |
| 15 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 16 | So she begged Jack to let her go for a swim , as it was so hot that day , out to the reef , where she could find the weed she needed in fresh , young supply . |
| 17 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 18 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 19 | She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes . |
| 20 | She tried to get him to let her check in the bar first . |
| 21 | And TODAY really did show her the way home by persuading Captain Nick Fletcher to let her sit in the cockpit with him . |
| 22 | British Rail used to let her travel in the guard 's van , but has now changed its rules . |
| 23 | I had to plead with you to let her come to the party , ’ Mother said . |
| 24 | Ruth could never understand Charlotte 's unwillingness to let her help with the baby . |
| 25 | But he refused to let her get near the subject . |
| 26 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 27 | Whereas Deneuve was able to delegate her ageing to a stuntwoman and dummies ( thus preserving her ‘ look ’ , as she calls it in her very precise and fluent English ) , Bowie had to act several scenes as he aged catastrophically through lack of fresh blood and then , despite one last desperate murder , perishes . |
| 28 | Janine Antoni gave a performance ( which took place on the opening night and can be viewed on video ) in which she immersed her hair in that inky mess familiar to so many women as hair-dye and proceeded to use her loaded as a floor mop , covering the surface of the gallery floor with the stuff . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr. Preston , if I may say so that was pretty cold blooded of you to leave her lying on the floor until I came in . ’ |
| 30 | He seemed quite determined to keep her imprisoned against the wall again , and she longed to understand what thoughts were surging through his mind . |