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Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye .
2	Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins .
3	Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie .
4	Linda recognised her from the previous day at school .
5	David followed her up the short path between the borders of spring flowers .
6	Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman .
7	Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses .
8	Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street !
9	Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes .
10	Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century .
11	So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut .
12	At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters .
13	Moloch reminded her of the Vartaq Veil .
14	Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place .
15	Desire shook her to the very foundations of her being .
16	When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer .
17	With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside .
18	Endill followed her to the sick bay .
19	Julia followed her to the private bed-sitting room , where her child was happily playing in his cot .
20	We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre .
21	Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home .
22	Pulling the door open further , Rune waved her towards the outer room and the telephone .
23	Sternly she dragged her thoughts and reactions under control , as Rune guided her through the crowded room towards the exit .
24	A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street .
25	Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood .
26	Happy or not , Tod preceded her through the front door .
27	It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention .
28	As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon .
29	The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant .
30	The coroner , Harold Price , heard at Walthamstow Coroner 's Court in north-east London that baby Kim 's GP and health visitor referred her to the social services on the day she died , said it was vital that such referrals should be made as soon as possible .