Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 2 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 3 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 4 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 5 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 6 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 7 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 8 | Desire shook her to the very foundations of her being . |
| 9 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 10 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 11 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 12 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 13 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 14 | The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours . |
| 15 | The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant . |
| 16 | The coroner , Harold Price , heard at Walthamstow Coroner 's Court in north-east London that baby Kim 's GP and health visitor referred her to the social services on the day she died , said it was vital that such referrals should be made as soon as possible . |
| 17 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 18 | And after another sleepless night , the green-eyed woman took her to the commanding officer . |
| 19 | The mortals believed that she was the provider of great riches until a seven-headed monster called The Cabinet destroyed her with the Golden Hair of Heseltine . |
| 20 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 21 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 22 | The noise of the music followed her up the cobbled street , getting fainter as she walked . |
| 23 | She jumped as his voice reached her through the open hatch . |
| 24 | ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time . |
| 25 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |
| 26 | She said that the sale provided her with the out-of-print material needed for research . |
| 27 | The test came back positive and Fiona 's doctor referred her to the top London expert in toxoplasma . |
| 28 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 29 | Rose gave a yelp of rage , her arm shot out and Evelyn gave an involuntary cry as the stone caught her on the left shoulder . |
| 30 | A Salvation Army boy who was studying medicine invited her to the Christian Union . |