Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] she [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Cornered , he resorted to patting her on the shoulder , while across his face flitted the craven smile of a man dealing with an unpredictable pet that yet might turn on him .
2 He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ .
3 I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take .
4 She finished breathlessly , and Greg refrained from enlightening her on the history of New Zealand .
5 In one yesterday , an article by Islington Council leader Margaret Hodge ended by describing her as the leader of the Association of Local Authorities since 1093 .
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