Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 2 | That was how it was going to be between them , just as she made him sleep on the floor beside their honeymoon bed in the Ritz . |
| 3 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 4 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 5 | As he turned to close the door of the tower behind them , she let them fall to the ground again . |
| 6 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 7 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 8 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 9 | When she hears me come into the room she does n't look round or say ‘ Hello ’ . |
| 10 | Lady Dawkins , who had never heard him speak before , surprised herself by her reaction when she heard him speak at the Albert Hall in January 1912 : |
| 11 | She spun into the bathroom and locked the door , smiling to herself as she heard him leap from the bed , too late to catch her . |
| 12 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 13 | Edward followed ; she heard him skid on the floor , in whose black and shining depths were reflected the chandeliers above their heads . |
| 14 | From her hut she heard him call to the Moi and her sons , and a moment later they all plunged naked into the river . |
| 15 | She heard him turn on the tap and drink a glass of water noisily . |
| 16 | She was writing down a message when she heard someone come into the room and knew without turning that it was Robert . |
| 17 | Then she heard someone come through the bushes behind her — " Oh damn ! " she though : her friends had found her . |
| 18 | Betty had heard the car stop in the lane and had begun to frighten herself even before she heard someone slip in the stream and swear , long before the knock on the door . |
| 19 | In a moment she heard the engine of the Mercedes , and she heard it zoom down the hill with a squeal of tyres . |
| 20 | She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs , and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her . |
| 21 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
| 22 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 23 | Watching from the window , Hilary grinned as she saw him hurry towards the driver , and only when he 'd climbed into the car did she move . |
| 24 | He watched her climb on to the chair , and she saw him grin at the sight of her sore rump , which she thought must burn as brightly as any beacon . |
| 25 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 26 | " Mrs Mott 's brownies " , said Sara when she saw them emerge from the picnic basket . |
| 27 | The longer she gazed down , through the tendril of tobacco smoke , the more the meeting merged into the older , stronger established patterns and colours of the valley floor until , eyes half-closed , she saw it disappear into the ancient landscape … |
| 28 | She saw it move in the forest like a gleam of something white . |
| 29 | An image flitted into her mind : she saw herself plunge over the edge of that black pit and tumble helplessly through the dark . |
| 30 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |