Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 2 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 3 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 4 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |
| 5 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 6 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 7 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 8 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 9 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 10 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 11 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 12 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 13 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 14 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 15 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 16 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 17 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 18 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
| 19 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
| 20 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
| 21 | Franz pulled Therese 's arm through his and began to lead her up the track towards the car park , but she stopped and looked back . |
| 22 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 23 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 24 | Releasing her shoulders , he took a firm grip on her arm and began steering her towards the steps down to the lawn . |
| 25 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 26 | When the young men came back and started to film her in the kitchen , she forgot every word she had learned . |
| 27 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 28 | The Tasmanian Law Reform Commission expressed the matter even more forcefully : ‘ The present focus on consent virtually demands that a defence counsel who is doing his job properly must challenge the sexual conduct and personal integrity of the complainant and attempt to present her in the most unfavourable light . ’ |
| 29 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 30 | Parkin gave a brief account of the previous night in his bass voice , saying that he had spoken briefly to Nicola at the pub outside TV London before the party started , and had spotted her in the boardroom . |