Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 2 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 3 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 4 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 5 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 6 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 7 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 9 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 10 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 11 | Much bigger than she 'd imagined it in the dark . |
| 12 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 13 | cos she 'd had it since the beginning of February . |
| 14 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 15 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 16 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 17 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 18 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 19 | I thought she 'd fetched it from the bedroom . |
| 20 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 21 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 22 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 23 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 24 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 25 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 26 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 27 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 28 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 29 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 30 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |