Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed .
2 Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale .
3 She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney .
4 Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list .
5 Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her .
6 The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack .
7 She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house .
8 There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit .
9 Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try !
10 He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out .
11 I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines .
12 It was a test , really , to see if she said anything about the stockings .
13 An Irish relative had told her that Ireland was now to be known as Eire but she knew nothing of the reasons for this , or of what was happening in Germany .
14 But she felt none of the joy she had anticipated .
15 But , because she knew nothing of the business , I insisted that she let me handle things .
16 And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door .
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