Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] she [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 2 | It would be far easier than if he was just going to stand over her like a portent of doom with that horrible expression on his face . |
| 3 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 4 | The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife . |
| 5 | I watched through George 's window as Filmer made great effort to go towards her with a smile , drawing attention away from the gaunt-faced man , who returned to the station . |
| 6 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 7 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 8 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 9 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 10 | ‘ It 'll be Monday all too soon , ’ Sara said , with the brotherly grimness that Thomas had learned to read in her as a style of intimacy . |
| 11 | Lucy contemplated her future , which seemed to stretch before her in a pattern of bleakness , especially where her social life was concerned . |
| 12 | According to Ben , she had waited for him and he had failed her ; never mind that the real fault was not his , or that he had lain at death 's door , or that he had been loath to go to her as a cripple , with nothing to offer but a life of struggle . |
| 13 | Fabia declared , stoutly , it somehow not sitting very well at all that he seemed to think of her as a child . |
| 14 | He had never asked about the child , partly from a kind of delicacy but mainly because he preferred not to think of her as a mother , and she had volunteered no information about Timmy or his father . |
| 15 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |
| 16 | Guido had turned to glance at her with a look of mocking distaste . |
| 17 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 18 | Less often , it 's her sleep that 's broken by a scream , and my turn to move across her in a sweat of protectiveness . |