Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] she with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She quelled her with a brisk command . |
| 4 | I just want you to judge her with a fuller picture at your disposal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They filled her with a deep , purple-rich sadness that was almost like happiness . |
| 7 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 8 | TWO friends of Cadbury 's Flake model Rachel Brown last night denied they supplied her with the deadly drug Ecstasy . |
| 9 | She was waiting , hopelessly , for me to present her with a completed list and I was n't going to . |
| 10 | He stopped her with an impatient gesture . |
| 11 | He fixed her with a cool stare . |
| 12 | He fixed her with a glittering eye . |
| 13 | He fixed her with a bloodshot eye . |
| 14 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking . |
| 16 | ‘ But perfectly in character , Caroline , ’ he told her with a derisive smile . |
| 17 | ‘ We both have things to say , ’ he told her with a fond smile . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll go first , ’ he told her with a scathing smile . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't need to worry , ’ he told her with a rueful smile , ‘ we 're quite adequately chaperoned . |
| 20 | Guido sighed and seemed to relax a little , as he told her with a light smile , ‘ In fact , I 'm very pleased . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's about all I am intending to keep on ! ’ he told her with a husky , sensual bark of laughter that left her breathless and quivering in his arms as he entered the room and tossed her lightly down on to the bed . |
| 22 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 23 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 24 | Chelmsford Crown Court heard that he blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun in the street in front of their two young children . |
| 25 | He studied her with a cool smile . |
| 26 | He graced her with a rueful smile . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all right , I did n't peek , ’ he assured her with a wolfish grin . |
| 28 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 29 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 30 | He released her with a sudden , impatient gesture , so that she slumped down gratefully on to the bed . |