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

No	Sentence
1	The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar .
2	The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk .
3	Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing .
4	A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea .
5	Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight .
6	He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her .
7	Elaine scrambled to recover her bikini and fell over , laughing as the relentless waves pulled her under the water , time and time again .
8	Eyes watched her from the thorn woods .
9	The words seized her by the throat .
10	Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat .
11	She 's off , her long legs carrying her down the lane .
12	From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris .
13	The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again .
14	Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road .
15	She was barely aware of the other models joining her on the platform , followed by Rainmondo himself , something he did only for very important clients .
16	Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool .
17	Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch !
18	This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living .
19	The driver was given directions to take her to the doctor that Julius had contacted .
20	She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her .
21	Amyas took her by the arm and helped her to her feet .
22	Having spent years attacking her as the author of awful policies , it is not credible to claim now that her departure hardly matters .
23	Her sons kissed her on the forehead .
24	We might as well both be invisible , she told herself with irritation , conveniently forgetting Luke 's earlier attempts to draw her into the conversation .
25	She began walking towards the depression , as four suited figures followed her from the ship , still arguing about the paperwork .
26	Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind .
27	There was nothing wrong in that , except that Eleanor had little idea about the conditions awaiting her on the construction site in Alaska .
28	Betty thanked her for the bucket and smiled at her , and Lydia , who , if Betty went on like this , might turn out to be quite human , decided that she would take her her breakfast in bed in the morning : thin crispy toast with a scraping of butter and golden clear jasmine tea , and an egg-cupful of harebells to remind her of the sky .
29	Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ?
30	A HEALTHY baby girl whose twin sister died mysteriously in hospital , had ended up severely brain damaged after doctors left her in the care of nurse Beverley Allitt , a court heard yesterday .