Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 2 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 3 | Before the side-car receded from her along the straight avenue , she observed a gun case ( sometimes Anderson shot the bogs with Dada ) , a rod case , and a bulging Gladstone bag tied together in the space ( called the well ) situated between the opposite wings of the sidecar . |
| 4 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 5 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 6 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 7 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 8 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 9 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 10 | He made no attempt to detain her , but walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as her own front door . |
| 11 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 12 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 13 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
| 14 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 15 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 16 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
| 17 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 18 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 19 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 20 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 21 | Lydia blinked at her through the misty light of the headlamps . |
| 22 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 23 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |
| 24 | Kate looked around her at the busy incident room . |
| 25 | As she was telling the shuffling Grimauds that light thickens , and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood , a voice cried above her from the high scaffolding . |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 27 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 28 | He spoke to her outside the social services and pleaded with her to come home . |
| 29 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 30 | The face loomed up out of the darkness and leered at her through the rain-soaked glass . |