Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 2 | So the Bangles disbanded and Hoffs walked into the sunset , a thousand corporate cheque books glinting behind her in the sun 's twilight glow . |
| 3 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |
| 4 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 5 | Tim and Oliver were on the balcony , their voices coming to her across the warm stillness . |
| 6 | ‘ Good evening , Fabia , ’ he greeted her smoothly as the housekeeper melted away , his dark eyes flicking over her from the top of her golden head , taking in her features and perfect complexion before travelling over her long-sleeved fine wool lime-coloured dress , its straight lines hiding none of her femininity , before his all-assessing gaze ended at her neat two-and-a-half-inch-heel shoes . |
| 7 | Then his expression suddenly hardened as his eyes flicked past her to the staircase at the top of which lay Silvia 's room . |
| 8 | His eyes ran over her from the wild disorder of her pale hair to the agitated beating of the pulse in her throat and the smooth rounded thrust of her breasts , and he looked at her angrily . |
| 9 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 10 | Every sound , every movement , told her what he was doing … the shoes placed neatly side by side , the braces flicked down over his shoulders , the trousers carefully folded and laid across the back of the wicker chair , his footsteps coming to her over the creaking floorboards ; every sound , every movement … he was touching her now , warm , tickling , smooth , his naked body moving up and down against her , his voice in her ear , soft and loving , fingers probing , his mouth on hers ; the gasp of excitement when he entered her , jabbing , hard , growing excited . |
| 11 | I have also heard a story , however , about her being distinctly unamused by some of the things written about her in the newspapers . |
| 12 | She also became a celebrated beauty through the depictions made of her by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [ q.v. ] and the painters Brown , D. G. Rossetti , Burne-Jones , and Val Prinsep [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 14 | His deepest sympathies sided with her against the plum-mouthed bureaucrats of the Cabinet Office . |
| 15 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 16 | And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall . |
| 17 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 18 | Her visit produced a flowering of names associated with her on the little island , like Queen Mary 's Bower and Tree , and stories grew up that the five-year-old child began to learn Latin , Greek , Italian and other subjects there , including the art of embroidery for which she was later famous , while taking time off for gardening . |
| 19 | On Dec. 31 , 1989 , Aquino announced sweeping Cabinet changes in an attempt to deal with some of the charges made against her by the rebel soldiers , with nine new appointees taking over key government posts [ see p. 37121 ] . |
| 20 | And of course , it took her no time to work out that precisely the opposite would apply to the beams coming at her from the front of the craft . |
| 21 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 22 | The masks spoke to her with the voice of the past . |
| 23 | She considered all this as she listened to the heated opinions forced upon her outside the shop ( where the throbbing engine of the Findus delivery van obliged everyone to shout ) , on the corner by the church and at two other points on her route back to Greystones . |
| 24 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 25 | Jenna asked when her heart had slowed down and his hands ran over her with the dominance of ownership . |
| 26 | She 's always , she has had compliments paid to her in the past , has n't she . |
| 27 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 28 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 29 | Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his . |
| 30 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |