Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 4 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 5 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 6 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 7 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 8 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 9 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 10 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
| 11 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 12 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 13 | ‘ I keep her under the white rock . |
| 14 | As I follow her into the front room someone whispers to Rufus : ‘ She got him under her thumb , I think . ’ |
| 15 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 16 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 18 | For the remaining weeks , you pay her at the lower rate of £44.50 a week . |
| 19 | Can you get her into the medical centre ? |
| 20 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 21 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 22 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 23 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 24 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 25 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 26 | Penry put his arm round her to shepherd her towards the moving row of taxis . |
| 27 | There was just enough time for Bobbie to make herself tidy before they called her into the front room . |
| 28 | Mm , Cathy knew what they called her in the initial stage |
| 29 | This time there was no need for him to force her up the dark steps of the barn ; she walked in front of him determinedly . |
| 30 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |