Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] the " 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 flung him into the Grand Canal .
3 She flung it on the counter before Rachaela .
4 She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand .
5 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 .
6 She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school .
10 She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown .
11 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
12 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 .
13 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 . ’
14 When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 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 .
17 Gingerly , she lowered herself onto the wall , and sat astride its smooth apex , still partially concealed by overhanging branches from the tree .
18 She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind .
19 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
20 She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit .
21 She lacked none of the courage typical of her Aries star sign .
22 She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred .
23 She seated herself at the desk .
24 She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room .
25 ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’
26 Then she seated herself on the edge of the bed and , breathing deeply , raised the phone up to her ear .
27 She seated herself by the fireplace , and motioned the two men to sit .
28 She seated herself in the bay window and said to George , ‘ Are you not supposed to be at Cambridge ?
29 She seated herself in the row in front of me , but before she did so she looked round , perhaps to see if after all there was anyone present whom she recognised .
30 She plunged it through the Daine Thing , ignoring the clear fluid that squished out of the puncture , and drove it deep .
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