Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] she [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she was wondering this , holding on to the rail with a wet slippery hand , feeling the heat rise and thicken , the train belched again and this movement , much more powerful than before , shifted and heaved the people around her to enclose her in a kind of human tide . |
| 2 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 3 | Forced on to what she really meant to say , Kate fumbles for words , absurdly feeling she has to simplify , patronise in order for him to understand her in a language foreign to him , that she must not hurt his feelings , he is part of the oppressed majority , colonised daily by the people she has come to work for . |
| 4 | On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone . |
| 5 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |