Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Propped up in bed to ease her breathing , her nightcap pulled down over her ears , Aunt Sarah seemed to have shrunk inside the shawls which had been heaped upon her against the chill of the room . |
| 2 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 3 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 4 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 5 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 6 | ‘ Miles , your daughter 's spirit is not walking the base , and none of us are going with her to the afterlife . |
| 7 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 8 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |
| 9 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 10 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 11 | One day I 'm walking with her beside the river , and I 've got my arm round her shoulders , and she 's put her arm round my waist , and we laugh at everything , and stop every few yards to kiss , and think , this is fantastic ! |
| 12 | Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time . |
| 13 | For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte . |
| 14 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 15 | Det Sgt Pat Lewis , of the child protection team , confirmed she had been examined by a doctor and added : ‘ We will be speaking to her in the morning . |
| 16 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 17 | And John would be lost without her at the moment there ! |
| 18 | It had already dawned on the girl that , from this moment on , she was on her own , and that there was nobody to stand between her and whatever might be devised for her in the future . |
| 19 | Erm she would ask that and fine that impose today er , could be paid by her at the rate of five pounds per week erm , she er runs a car her invalidity income amounts to forty six pounds fifteen pence per week and she also receives a super annuation payment from her former employers Goldeson 's Hospital at the rate of a hundred and three pounds per month but she and her husband do have to er to run the home and er , and run the house er , run run the car and she would ask that she 'll be allowed to pay at the rate of five pound per week . |
| 20 | Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way . |
| 21 | The Diggorys were long abed , and Hector shut up in her little room , but candles had been left for her by the front door . |
| 22 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 23 | Two letter of thanks were then read — the first from Edith Harlow thanking all the teachers for the lovely handbag , matching gloves and cheque which were presented to her at the Essex Rally together with a jewel box , cheque , flowers and an iced cake all given by Essex teachers and class members . |
| 24 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 25 | And however hard she tried to hide her intentions from Nils they were emblazoned around her in the electric blue of panic over the iridium crown of Steel City in the night . |
| 26 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 27 | Nor was she going to give in to the warm and leaping sensations being generated in her by the slow , rhythmic stroking of his fingers . |
| 28 | Diario 16 also carried a cartoon portraying Diana as Cinderella with a glass slipper bouncing off her head after being thrown at her from the palace . |
| 29 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 30 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |