Example sentences of "be [verb] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 3 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 4 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 5 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 6 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 7 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 8 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 9 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 10 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 11 | To get out of the car to peer beneath its bonnet was not going to get her anywhere either , she knew in advance , because with her lack of mechanical knowledge the fault could be staring her in the face and she would never recognise it . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 14 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 15 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 16 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 17 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 18 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 19 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 20 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 21 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |
| 22 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 23 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 24 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 25 | ‘ I asked my childminder to do what I do when Laura is naughty , and that is tap her on the hand and tell her ‘ no ’ — and that is all , ’ she explained . |
| 26 | But the memory of her sister 's surprising her with the amethyst brooch was like a rubbed sore in her mind . |
| 27 | A friend 's meeting her off the boat and driving her up . ’ |
| 28 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 29 | Alison 's taking her in the van . |
| 30 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |