Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 4 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 5 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 10 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 12 | The house seemed to watch her with a calculating eye . |
| 13 | Her palette of evocative earth and sea tones also seemed to link her to an English landscape tradition , and her work was included in a group show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1984 entitled Landscape , Memory and Desire . |
| 14 | His touch seemed to burn her through the thin cotton of her white blouse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 17 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 18 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 19 | The cat began to stalk her through the blade-broad iris leaves with such solemnity that she laughed and paused even longer , to play with him , and was cheered . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 22 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 23 | It was raining and he decided to drop her outside the front door , sheltered as it was by the portico with two columns . |
| 24 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | She remembered their birthdays , sent notes of apology to their wives when they had to accompany her on an overseas tours and ensured that they were ‘ fed and watered ’ when she went out with them from Kensington Palace . |
| 27 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 28 | Certainly she was indurate against Knox 's sermonizing , and their clash of ideologies was one of the factors leading to passionate outbursts against Mary whenever one of her enemies wished to force her into an awkward situation . |
| 29 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 30 | 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 . |