Example sentences of "[verb] she [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 2 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 3 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 4 | I sent a junior nurse in there with them to referee , but I expect by now they 've got her pinned to the wall , ’ Kath told him . |
| 5 | William of Jumièges says that Cnut married her after having her brought from the city before the siege ended and giving her weight in gold and silver before the whole army , but his chronology here is suspect , as he places the battle of Auxendunum ( presumably Assandun , 18 October ) before Æthelred 's death on 23 April , and the more contemporary Chronicle date of mid-1017 for the marriage is preferable . |
| 6 | He seemed quite determined to keep her imprisoned against the wall again , and she longed to understand what thoughts were surging through his mind . |
| 7 | On the day when Katherine came home to find the easel her father had given her collapsed on the floor and the careful copy she had been making of Vermeer 's ‘ Girl with a Mandolin' splattered with red paint , she made her decision . |
| 8 | She wanted to fling herself into his arms , but the cold fury she saw in his face kept her riveted to the spot . |
| 9 | But when he did appear a suffocating shame kept her rooted to the spot . |
| 10 | She dealt with them , then attended to various other tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon . |
| 11 | As soon as I rounded the line of fitted units screening off the kitchen I saw her slumped on the floor in the corner , huddled up as though against the cold . |
| 12 | Spiralling leg fractures , cysts , ventricle failure also saw her whisked into the operating theatre . |
| 13 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 14 | ‘ We both saw her put in the taxi , if we are to be accurate . ’ |
| 15 | If your elderly relative is unfortunate enough to be registered with a doctor who is impatient with the older patients on his list and not particularly interested in geriatric medicine , the best thing to do is to try to get her transferred to the list of another doctor in the area whose attitude towards his elderly patients is known to be more sympathetic and thorough . |
| 16 | I think you ought to get her taken off the scheme . ’ |
| 17 | Annie must have used the house-phone to have her paged at the restaurant . |
| 18 | Had she heard of the clitoris ? |
| 19 | Had she insisted on the couple marrying in the village church she would have been obliged to attend the ceremony . |
| 20 | Had she fallen in the street ? |
| 21 | To tell the truth , I doubt they would have noticed had she crawled into the house with a broken leg . |
| 22 | Had she arrived in the department within some five minutes of her cardiac arrest , it is much more likely that she would have been resuscitated … |
| 23 | What else had she found in the loft ? |
| 24 | Maybe , the Mountie said , but if she was as upset as all that , why had she come on the train at all ? |
| 25 | What , after all , had she expected in the Church of England in a provincial town a hundred miles from London and the Midland conurbations ? |
| 26 | She had consented to intercourse with him and would not have done so had she known of the disease , yet her consent was not vitiated by his omission to tell her of his bodily condition . |
| 27 | Watching her reflected in the mirror , marred by the black specks on the surface , and feeling the stickiness of the lacquer on her hair , he began to panic , it was n't how it should have been , he grabbed his shirt and jacket , he was running down the stairs , sickness heaving in his throat , an old fear of something he had never recognised before . |
| 28 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 29 | Hours later , an employee at the funeral home found faint signs that she was still breathing and had her rushed to the hospital in what the funeral home owner said could be nothing but ‘ a miracle ’ . |
| 30 | I had her followed to the airport . |