Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume .
2 Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London .
3 The court 's hearings were in private , but the judgment revealed that the Attorney General , Harold Whelehan , had obtained a temporary injunction on Feb. 7 preventing the parents of the girl from taking her to the UK for an operation .
4 For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment .
5 It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast .
6 To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods .
7 George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom .
8 When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found .
9 She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes .
10 Just the thought of having her around the place made him irritable .
11 The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest .
12 Tess manages to infiltrate the world of high finance with a fabulous proposal that has the potential of taking her to the top .
13 She hated the school for forcing her through the mockery of inquiry .
14 Yes , he 'd bring Ma to the fête , by way of introducing her to the new life .
15 If indeed he 'd secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets , then he suffered for his lust .
16 But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap .
17 She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship .
18 As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again .
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