Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] she in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ . |
| 2 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 3 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 4 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 5 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 6 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 7 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 8 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 9 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 10 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 11 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 12 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 13 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |