Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 2 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 3 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 4 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 5 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 6 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 7 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 8 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 9 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 10 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 11 | The path to salvation is eventually shown her by the unwitting Messiah figure Hussein , an East African poet who speaks in metaphors and proverbs . |
| 12 | She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels . |
| 13 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 14 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 15 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 16 | There 's Roger ( Hugh Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ) , big noises in the world of advertising jingles trying vainly to repress the scars of a cot death tragedy , good-hearted but batty cat-loving loner Maggie ( Emma Thompson ) gagging for ‘ it ’ but a victim of the very self-help manuals she publishes and sexy Sarah , whose predilection for married men has landed her with the overgrown child that is Brian ( Tony Slattery doing his worst ) . |
| 17 | Would Eve be furious if Mother Francis heard the whole story of the lies , the unhappiness and the circumstances that had brought her to the other side of the city and now into a hospital bed ? |
| 18 | To aid her in such a duty Nature has wisely provided her with the sexual appetite slightly developed ’ . |
| 19 | Two years after they had been married , Elinor had suddenly , mysteriously , developed a weakness in her legs , and Henry , who , equally mysteriously , in those days was n't trying to kill her , had hurried her to the local hospital where the doctors had diagnosed — wait for it — polyneuritis . |
| 20 | On September 13 the Guangming Ribao , pilloried her on the front page under the headline , Dai Qing — the Rebellion ‘ Reporter ’ . |
| 21 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 22 | She recovered the parish file given her by the diocesan office and spread the meagre contents out on Bishop Julian 's desk . |
| 23 | Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ . |
| 24 | It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva . |
| 25 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse . |
| 26 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 27 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 28 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 29 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 30 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |