Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
2 | Dinah felt herself trembling ; this was the man who had libelled Paul and herself , had made their early years wretched , had hounded her out of the only world she knew . |
3 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
4 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
5 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
6 | He had written her off as a useless , lying bimbo . |
7 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
8 | The pub had drawn her out of the cold and fog into warmth . |
9 | He had taken her out one day , her and Mama , and when he had handed her out of the big Daimler , her papa 's pride , he had slipped a note into her hand , inviting her to meet him when his duties were over , and go out with him — perhaps for a ride on the Brooklyn Ferry . |
10 | Her mother had once told her scornfully about a crazy book produced on the contemporary new wave of evolutionary theory : a book which abandoned Darwin and returned to his predecessor , Lamark . |
11 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
12 | Its crassness repelled her but it slid inside her because she recognized it as her name and suddenly there was a dark pit , a chasm , a void , and the gravity of being dragged her down into the dark heart of weight . |
13 | When she discovered that he had called her repeatedly on a mobile phone she flew into a rage . |
14 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
15 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
16 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
17 | There could only be one reason why Ross — always such a proud and unforgiving man — would have broken his own self-imposed exile and contacted her ; only one reason why he would have brought her back to the quiet privacy of her own apartment . |
18 | Yet the glimpse of her on that brief video had n't brought her back with the sharp focus that I craved . |
19 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
20 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |
21 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
22 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
23 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
24 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
25 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
26 | He had forced her back against a closed door , literally and metaphorically . |
27 | Mrs Zamzam had left her home on the other side of those hills more than three decades earlier and she had never been back . |
28 | I 'd taken her back with a woolly suit , mitts , hat , booties , everything , in the middle of July . |
29 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
30 | Her wisps of belief in an after-life had deserted her irrevocably with the flying bomb . |