Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 2 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 5 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 6 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 7 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 8 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 9 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 10 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 11 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 12 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 13 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 14 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 15 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 16 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 17 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 18 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 19 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 21 | and for a treat he 's taking her to the , er nostalgic weekend at |
| 22 | he 's left her in the car . |
| 23 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 24 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 25 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 26 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 27 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 28 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 29 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 30 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |