Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Goodbye Arak , ’ she whispered with each of them . |
| 2 | ‘ The economic recovery has restored old fortunes far more significantly , ’ she admitted in this year 's State of the Nation address , ‘ than it has touched the lives of the vast majority of our people . ’ |
| 3 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
| 4 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
| 5 | She sat facing me : calm , sympathetic , but at a distance I had no way of negotiating , as I listened dismayed to what she revealed of those islands , that lost continent . |
| 6 | She read anything ; she read in all directions . |
| 7 | I do n't know , I ca n't remember whether she applied for that , I know Harold his daughter went up to Southampton and he was horrified at the accommodation she was staying in , up there |
| 8 | When he pulled himself together he rang Rachel , in search of that mixture of common sense and warmth that she applied to all emotional crises . |
| 9 | She emptied in half the tin and threw in a lighted match for good measure . |
| 10 | She grew yams she grew millet she grew vegetables and sunflowers and the food she shared with all the family . |
| 11 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 12 | His lovemaking was the best , the perfection she expected from such a gentle and caring man . |
| 13 | Fabia was not sure what she expected after that . |
| 14 | She led for most of the way at a terrific pace with Cardwell doggedly staying in touch before making a last-ditch effort in the final 25 metres . |
| 15 | He wondered from time to time what sort of a life she led in that remote cottage with her writer friend , how far it had satisfied her . |
| 16 | A woman with an ‘ afflicted ’ husband told the 1888 Select Committee on Sweating that she ‘ finished ’ four pairs of trousers a day , for which she made at most 1/2d , that her wages were 4d per day less than four years previously , and that after paying her rent , she had 5/ a week on which to keep her three children , her husband and herself . |
| 17 | Ten feet in the other direction a staircase rose directly up by the side of the end wall and she made for this . |
| 18 | And that 's how Millie saw them when she entered the kitchen again , carrying the plate of chitterlings : the two people she cared for most , and who were about to lose her , laughing their heads off . |
| 19 | Every word he spoke was true ; but she fought with all her will against the impulse to agree to his face . |
| 20 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 21 | He 'd had a separate telephone line installed ; she lived with that . |
| 22 | She knew that Eric 's absences coincided with certain newspaper reports ; she lived with that . |
| 23 | She knew the gun was there ; she lived with that . |
| 24 | She might well be capable of attacking someone who threatened Lesley-Jane or the girl 's career , which she lived with such fierce vicariousness , but there was no sign that Michael Banks did represent any such threat . |
| 25 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 26 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 27 | Had he seen her before she lived like this ? |
| 28 | Because she lived against this woman . |
| 29 | she lived in that hotel . |
| 30 | She lived in Half Moon Crescent ( he had checked the number and the street before he 'd started out on his trek , so that even if Slater had lost or forgotten her number , she would not be lost to him ) . |