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

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1 She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week .
2 The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them .
3 Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others .
4 One or two of the gentle , giant horses snorted in fear , but they allowed her to lead them to the safety of the barn , while Seb was struggling to maintain control of the hunters .
5 I did as she suggested , keeping my dressing-gown on , and watched her settle herself in the arm-chair and get her knitting out .
6 Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother .
7 Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up .
8 A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it .
9 In a remarkable public statement , Anne insisted she said nothing of the sort .
10 Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news .
11 What , did she mention anything about the card ?
12 Did she know something about the performance he did not ?
13 Did she warn you of the new plot , and needed protection ? ’
14 They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre .
15 So what did she mean , the proprietress of the lugubrious little estaminet on the banks of the lovely Loire , what could she have meant when she said she had nothing in the house for lunch ?
16 You said she saw you with the child and there 's not two Aggie Winkowskis kickin' around this quarter , or the town itself , and somebody would have told her where you lived . ’
17 It was one of his most fertile periods — he was n't a great letter-writer — too polite — he said she understood him in the letter I — I — saw — he said — ’
18 Lucy herself said she remembered nothing of the dreadful cockchafer affair .
19 Had she destroyed them in the period of bitterness towards Walter after his death ?
20 Had she cast him as the villain in her private emotional tangles ?
21 Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ?
22 At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report .
23 Had she passed him on the street — on Broadway perhaps ?
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