Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some rattled on the glass , some got her in the face , some spurted into the room . |
| 2 | I haul her off the bed and half carry , half drag her into the bathroom . |
| 3 | But Matthew Blake did not seem prepared to let her off the hook so easily . |
| 4 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 5 | When she is in her own home this puts her above the income support level of £44 personal allowance , plus a higher pensioner premium of £23.55 , totalling £67.55 . |
| 6 | Luke had to pull off her hands , one by one and half carry her along the bus and down the steps . |
| 7 | This reminded her of the Colonel and his visit to the Somerset County Cricket ground , courtesy of Matthew Prescott and his mother . |
| 8 | Sabine followed her to the shade of the veranda , and took the cushioned chair her hostess indicated . |
| 9 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 10 | ‘ I had a figure to go to and I 'm delighted to get her at the price . ’ |
| 11 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 12 | Carrie had taken over many of Dolly 's duties at Handley Farm , with two young girls aged ten and eleven to help her in the dairy . |
| 13 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 14 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 15 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 16 | They all found her on the telephone to her boyfriend again . |
| 17 | The first day she went to that school , I remember , we all followed her up the road to the bus-stop , laughing at her . |
| 18 | Oh so long before John and I , but er , oh no they all had her under the thumb . |
| 19 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 20 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 21 | When she returned to Swans ' Meadow , she found Ursula had embarked on a cold-blooded drinking bout and was reluctant to accompany her into the garden , the one venue where Charlotte felt she could safely disclose what had happened . |
| 22 | It was better that way because then no one , even when put under the most severe torture , would be able to name her as the culprit . |
| 23 | At first , you may still have accidents as you may not be able to get her to the potty in time , but she 'll gradually learn to hold on longer . |
| 24 | Prosser , now a clear favourite to complete a maiden victory as a professional , had a slight hiccup when she found sand to lose a shot at the short second before birdies at the third and sixth carried her to the turn in 35 , one under . |
| 25 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 26 | He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote . |
| 27 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 28 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 29 | He remembered their girl as she had been when he first had her through the system in Denver . |
| 30 | When he first saw her on the day of her father 's accident , something happened to him . |