Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 2 | The water was icy cold but she washed her arms up to the oxters , and then her face and her neck down to the top of the bodice ; after which she took off the rest of her underwear and got into a calico nightdress . |
| 3 | The first of these circumstances was the arrival of an envelope , which she discovered on the hall mat on her return from school . |
| 4 | Siobham half fills each glass in turn except one which she fills to the brim . |
| 5 | There was a blue sky this morning and a dripping sound , which she located as the sound of melting snow , pattering from the eaves . |
| 6 | The only occasions upon which she came into the attic herself were pharmaceuti-cally driven , to bring tablets , linctus , suppositories , or to ‘ cup ’ her son . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't , ’ she said , and was surprised at the unsteadiness with which she walked across the room , lifted the receiver , handled the mundane enquiry . |
| 8 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 9 | Our problem is that while Mrs Iverson appears to have ingested that from which she died at the dinner party there is no dish from which some or all the guests did not share . ’ |
| 10 | Mrs Knight said Bruce 's daughter joined him in the house and cleared out a bureau which she had in the bedroom . |
| 11 | With which she stalked across the back of the hall to her little parlour opposite , and slammed herself into it . |
| 12 | She was ashamed of causing his inner disturbance which she sensed by the restlessness of his hands , and she wondered if he was praying . |
| 13 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 14 | Where better than the south of France , which she knew like the back of her hand ? |
| 15 | Through her sobs which she choked into the pillow , Benny heard snatches of the conversation . |
| 16 | Since 1945 , Britain 's record has been consistently better than that which she achieved in the interwar years — an average of 20 per cent of GDP as compared with 11 per cent [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 17 | Although there was no meeting with William , it would seem that Victoria did use her influence , as is clear from a letter which she wrote to the Empress after her visit . |
| 18 | These are intercalated with long nights of insomnia which she spends on the sofa with the radio and Herodotus , having fled her snoring lover Willy ( later Wally ) . |
| 19 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 20 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 21 | Majorie Boulton was President of the British Esperanto Congress in May at which she lectured on the history of Esperanto in Oxford . |
| 22 | With nimble fingers , Eleanor put the remaining flowers in place before rolling the newspaper into a neat parcel which she carried into the vestry . |
| 23 | Mrs Cullam put the baby on the table among the crumbs , removing its napkin which she dropped on the floor , and said in the same low economical tone , ‘ Get me another nappie , Georgina . ’ |
| 24 | Her best known books , though , were Royal Service and Royal Secrets , which she ghost-wrote for the Prince of Wales 's former valet , Stephen Barry . |
| 25 | Her subsequent unhappy reaction caused him to regret that he had inadvertently damaged her self-esteem by destroying part of her image of self which she presented to the world . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister then made one of her dynamic speeches , in which she referred to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe , but she warned that , to retain our freedom , we must maintain an enduring defence system . |
| 27 | Her life changed dramatically in 1906 , when her godmother and great-aunt , Lady Blomfield , left her a legacy of £1,000 , which she donated to the revival of morris dancing . |
| 28 | Here , taking a milk measure from a marble slab , she bent over a big brown earthenware jar , took off the wooden lid , dipped in the measure and scooped up some clean water , which she handed to the child , saying , ‘ Drink that . ’ |
| 29 | The maid then shook out a large linen table napkin which she placed across the lap of Artemis 's best frock . |
| 30 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |