Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] she [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 2 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 3 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 4 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 6 | The house seemed to watch her with a calculating eye . |
| 7 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 8 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 9 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 10 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 11 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 12 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 13 | Many right-wing back-bench critics of the government ( but supporters of Mrs Thatcher ) could voice their criticism without including her and liked to present her as a political prisoner of Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ . |
| 14 | Kate 's expression was hardly conciliatory , and he had to remind her in a fierce whisper that he was an important sponsor , so that she allowed herself to smile and be polite . |
| 15 | A CHURCH community worker stabbed a teenager in the neck and attempted to rape her in a terrifying ordeal . |