Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll go and collect her , or meet her on the way home . |
| 3 | I was thinking maybe next weekend I might or meet her for the day |
| 4 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 5 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 6 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 7 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |
| 8 | Something was beginning to happen to her , an excitement , a wildness that caught her by the throat . |
| 9 | Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone . |
| 10 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 11 | There was a cruel taunt in his voice that cut her to the quick . |
| 12 | There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild . |
| 13 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 14 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |
| 15 | She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees . |
| 16 | Margaret Hughes wept in the backseat of the police car that took her from the court to prison . |
| 17 | A forager learns many things about a food source that aid her in the future , including its colour , shape , odour , location , nearby landmarks , time of nectar production , how to approach , land , enter , and reach the nectar , and so on . |
| 18 | She felt strangely restless , wanting to throw herself into every small task that awaited her throughout the house . |
| 19 | And yet he was immaculate , his hair groomed and beaded with rubies ; his tunic an achingly sweet shade of pink that was almost white , edged with black ; his trousers of a blue that reminded her of the summer skies of her youth . |
| 20 | Polly pushed her arms through the webbing straps that reminded her of the restrainer her eldest sister used to stop her adventurous offspring clambering out of their prams and buggies . |
| 21 | Again she heard the boys ' warm approving voices , voices that left her outside the heat of that dangerous moment . |
| 22 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 23 | As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it . |
| 24 | That was another thing that annoyed her about the child : she always had to find something nice to say . |
| 25 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 26 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 27 | Yussuf caught hold of her and propelled her towards the gate . |
| 28 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 29 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 30 | Then Clare took her by the elbow and led her along the path which suddenly went through a gate and stopped . |