Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his .
2 She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally .
3 Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with .
4 She flung him into the Grand Canal .
5 Turning abruptly , she flung it with a clash into the fireplace ; then she went out and got into the car .
6 She flung it on the counter before Rachaela .
7 She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand .
8 She flung herself on the bed in a paroxysm of weeping , wailing like an animal in pain — until Mrs Taylor came running , and took her in her arms .
9 She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date .
10 She flung herself across the room , beating helplessly on the door , whispering his name over and over as if the force of her desire would bring him back .
11 A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane .
12 ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY .
13 She met him on a forest track , ran him down and did her best to kill him .
14 Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire .
15 At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school .
16 She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown .
17 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
18 She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay .
19 She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village .
20 I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’
21 When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone .
22 ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths .
23 She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes .
24 ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist .
25 When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River .
26 Gingerly , she lowered herself onto the wall , and sat astride its smooth apex , still partially concealed by overhanging branches from the tree .
27 She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind .
28 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
29 She read it in a magazine .
30 She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit .
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