Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | Mrs Smith needs someone to help her with the practical side of caring , to arrange respite breaks , coordinate the nursing input and ensure that the hospital and local authority services work together with her . |
| 3 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 4 | ‘ I must apologise for keeping you waiting , Miss Stanton , ’ he said formally , indicating a chair and seating himself to face her across a big black desk . |
| 5 | ‘ She also told me she is going to ask you to help her in a little project , ’ he said , grinning mischievously . |
| 6 | I just want you to judge her with a fuller picture at your disposal . |
| 7 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 8 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 9 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 10 | Penry put his arm round her to shepherd her towards the moving row of taxis . |
| 11 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 12 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 13 | She was waiting , hopelessly , for me to present her with a completed list and I was n't going to . |
| 14 | In the corner of one of their fields the younger brother 's wife built a shelter of leaves and twigs draped across with a shawl and put her baby beneath it to shield her from the alternate onslaughts of sun and showers . |
| 15 | He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action . |
| 16 | She is in fact perfectly ordinary , with nothing to distinguish her from a thousand others . |