Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] she in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 2 | She said she ‘ hollered ’ at it three times not to pull her in the water . |
| 3 | Trefusis had wished her luck , Juliet had told her to shoot straight , and the psych techs had tried not to look her in the eyes . |
| 4 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 5 | When he stood up to greet her in the lobby of the hotel , her heart contracted a little with love . |
| 6 | ‘ What I strongly suspect — ’ Roman had strolled back to join her in the cockpit , stretching long , hair-coarsened dark legs unnervingly close to her own slender golden thighs ‘ — is that Mathilde embroidered the local myths to suit herself ! |
| 7 | I try to make a joke out of what she 's driving at , and lean forward to poke her in the belly . |
| 8 | The actress swivelled round to face her in the doorway . |