Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Markby joined her on the further side and they both stopped to watch as their bovine companions lumbered up and stood in a row staring at them expectantly , tossing muddy heads . |
| 6 | David followed her up the short path between the borders of spring flowers . |
| 7 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 8 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 9 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 10 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 11 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 14 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Moloch reminded her of the Vartaq Veil . |
| 17 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 18 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 19 | Desire shook her to the very foundations of her being . |
| 20 | When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Endill followed her to the sick bay . |
| 23 | Julia followed her to the private bed-sitting room , where her child was happily playing in his cot . |
| 24 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 25 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 26 | Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home . |
| 27 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 28 | Pulling the door open further , Rune waved her towards the outer room and the telephone . |
| 29 | Sternly she dragged her thoughts and reactions under control , as Rune guided her through the crowded room towards the exit . |
| 30 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |