Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
2 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
3 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
4 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
5 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
6 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
7 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
8 | He tried to discourage her in every way . |
9 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
10 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
11 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
12 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
13 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
14 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
15 | A yellow child tried to interest her in a jar of dead flies . |
16 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
17 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
18 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
19 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
20 | Luke tried to steer her across the road , but she turned on him , her eyes heavy with shadows , her face pale and strained . |
21 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
22 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
23 | Katherine 's very presence seemed to provoke her at every turn . |
24 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
25 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
26 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
27 | In two long strides , Guy abandoned his leaning position by the fireplace and came to take her by the shoulders , shaking her roughly . |
28 | A great wind of rage seemed to blow her along the passage , flung the door open and then dropped her , becalmed , just inside it . |
29 | She leant in and stooped to take her under the arms ; like a peach tree blighted by leafcurl , Sycorax lay tinder-dry in a narrow crescent , her body hardly filling the hammock 's web . |
30 | Maybe , if she could squeeze a mink coat out of Maxie , it would help her towards the membership which always seemed to elude her by a vote or two , a vote strongly influenced , she feared , by Olga Stych . |