Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 2 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 3 | ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral . |
| 4 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 5 | Perhaps all those years wasted mooning over Jake had somehow robbed her of the ability to give her love to someone more deserving . |
| 6 | Since she felt as though someone had physically kicked her in the stomach , it took Shannon a moment or two to get the words out . |
| 7 | Anyhow , my father 's just taken her to the doctor 's , so I thought I 'd give you a ring . |
| 8 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh no , ’ she said , ‘ oh no , ’ in a shocked , incredulous way as if someone had just slapped her in the face . |
| 10 | The heat was fierce that June — 102 degrees in the shade at one time — but Mrs Browning went out in it and seemed to have forgotten such scorching sun had once enervated her to the point of collapse . |
| 11 | I 'm quite interested to see how I get on with her actually cos I 've only ever known her in the context of Tom and Darrel really . |
| 12 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |
| 13 | Then she wondered suddenly if Tom Russell had known she would find it intimidating and had deliberately kept her in the dark . |
| 14 | right with an extra window , whatever about the money , like Mrs what 's her name , so you 've nearly closed her on the conservatory you do all the paper , your order close form on the conservatory and you say to her , right , cos you 're working your sums out , do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds ? |
| 15 | We 've often seen her in the library , her . |
| 16 | He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where . |
| 17 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 18 | He kissed her on the forehead and lips tenderly , then placed her on the floor . |
| 19 | Her body was racked at times when the torment had almost driven her across the corridor into Andrew 's bed . |
| 20 | Dashing into the kitchen now , she found Jessie standing at the table and squeezing a lemon into a glass and she had almost pulled her from the table towards the door before she managed to say to her , ‘ He 's … he 's downstairs in the yard . |
| 21 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 22 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 23 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
| 24 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 25 | Adam had never touched her in the office , and she was not expecting it . |
| 26 | He had subsequently taken her to the cinema , where she had been startled to feel his hand creep into hers . |