Example sentences of "[be] [verb] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness . |
| 4 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 5 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 6 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 7 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 8 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 9 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 10 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 11 | Lazy-lidded grey eyes in a dark , chisel-chinned face were regarding her with an insulting trace of laughter somewhere in their depths . |
| 12 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 13 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 14 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 15 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 17 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 18 | " Well … something 's put her in a bad form … " |
| 19 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 20 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 21 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 22 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 23 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 24 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 25 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 26 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 27 | Carolyn was ignoring her like a sulky child . |
| 28 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 29 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 30 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |