Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 2 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 3 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 4 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |
| 5 | Contemporary feminist writers have seen her rather as a demonstration of the extreme body hatred and guilt that a patriarchal religion lays upon women . |
| 6 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 7 | Once again our Branch President has kindly offered her home as a venue . |
| 8 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 9 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 10 | Andrew 's locked her up in a convent where no one can touch her . " |
| 11 | Clearly he 'd brought her here for a purpose … |
| 12 | But the information she already had marked her out as a target . |
| 13 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 14 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 15 | She had always regarded her purely as a teacher , a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again . |
| 16 | He would n't have asked her out for a meal if he did n't like her , she reasoned . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just taken her over from a friend who is going abroad . |
| 18 | Hywel , supposed Lydia , must have briefly courted her , have put on a suit , taken her out to a café , been moderately gay . |
| 19 | After the doctor , nurses and others have rushed to the scene to settle the girl with a syringe and have taken her off in an ambulance , Mrs Turpin goes home . |
| 20 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |