Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Turning abruptly , she flung it with a clash into the fireplace ; then she went out and got into the car . |
| 4 | A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane . |
| 5 | ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY . |
| 6 | She met him on a forest track , ran him down and did her best to kill him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 9 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 10 | She read it in a magazine . |
| 11 | At two o'clock she seated herself at a window-table in a restaurant overlooking the Nile , near where the houseboat was moored . |
| 12 | She seated herself in a wicker chair and took her mug without speaking . |
| 13 | When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end . |
| 14 | She propelled her to a low wall and sat her down beside her suitcase . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 16 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 17 | She led me into a bed-sitting-room . |
| 18 | She led me into a parlour . |
| 19 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 20 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 21 | She led him into a room off the hall , a room which ran the length of the house with a window at each 0d . |
| 22 | She led us past a series of dun-walled anterooms through whose windows the burnished leagues of the East River fired off all their flame . |
| 23 | Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes . |
| 24 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 25 | Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone . |
| 26 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |
| 27 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 28 | Her senses are , of course , less acute than mine : if she feels even the slightest admonitory prickle on her nape , she misinterprets it as a spattering of raindrops , instead of a stranger 's gaze . |
| 29 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 30 | You know she 's , I think she got it from a very good chef she said somewhere . |