Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 2 | But Matthew Blake did not seem prepared to let her off the hook so easily . |
| 3 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 4 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 5 | It 's impossible to recall her without a smile , or a good word , or the suggestion that even the office reprobate we 've had one or two was ‘ canny ’ . |
| 6 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 7 | ‘ I had a figure to go to and I 'm delighted to get her at the price . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was glad to see her at the pictures with you , ’ Anne said . |
| 9 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 10 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 11 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 12 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 13 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 14 | The day her mother was due to put her in an institution Ursula Findlay , a nurse from Gloucestershire visited the ward . |
| 15 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 16 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 17 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 18 | Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago . |
| 19 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 20 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 21 | When she returned to Swans ' Meadow , she found Ursula had embarked on a cold-blooded drinking bout and was reluctant to accompany her into the garden , the one venue where Charlotte felt she could safely disclose what had happened . |
| 22 | It was better that way because then no one , even when put under the most severe torture , would be able to name her as the culprit . |
| 23 | At first , you may still have accidents as you may not be able to get her to the potty in time , but she 'll gradually learn to hold on longer . |
| 24 | It 's an honour to be able to present her with a plaque . |
| 25 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 26 | ‘ He was able to introduce her to a lot of people but her real ambition is to be a movie star , not an actress on the stage . |
| 27 | But staff say it would be hypocritical to welcome her to a place where foxes injured by hounds are nursed back to health . |
| 28 | Christina was pleased to get her into the car without being mobbed , and drove quickly out of town and on to the coast-road . |
| 29 | Had it been Alex Household who had been shot , the situation would have been different , because she so patently disapproved of him , but with Michael Banks as the victim , it was difficult to cast her in the role of murderer . |
| 30 | But before writing to her friend of the matter , the queen-dowager debated whether or not it was necessary to burden her with the knowledge . |