Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most notable of these was the occasion when faced alone by an escaped lion she single-handedly wrestled it to the ground and |
| 2 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 3 | She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments . |
| 4 | Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her . |
| 5 | He had called her shortly after midnight , she already knew something of the personalities involved . |
| 6 | Maybe she just said it in the heat of anger or whatever . |
| 7 | Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was |
| 8 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 9 | She scarcely recognised herself in the woman who confronted her . |
| 10 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 11 | When a thought occurred to her , she quickly noted it on the pad . |
| 12 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 13 | She once lost one on the tube . |
| 14 | ‘ She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own . |
| 15 | And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire . |
| 16 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 17 | Once again a very enjoyable evening , erm , I pushed into something that er , I do n't think she really wanted to do initially , but she thoroughly enjoyed it at the end . |
| 18 | She practically flung herself into the driver 's seat , moaning loudly with pain as she eased herself into position and started the engine . |
| 19 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 20 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 21 | She often asked me about the hills in the distance , beyond the moors , and wanted to ride her pony there . |
| 22 | For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there . |
| 23 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 24 | She even had one on the police for the South African Police Gazette — The Times . |
| 25 | But she then took him through the house pointing out china and furniture which he was interested in . |
| 26 | She then busied herself around the room , the implication quite clear : I was to drink up and get out as quickly as I could . |
| 27 | She then concealed herself in the shadows between the two towers , thus to survey the scene and decide on her best approach . |
| 28 | She almost offered herself for the fight , the surrogate , the already-victorious . |
| 29 | ‘ Aye — ’ she rose from the chair , went to a basket at the side of the hearth and , taking up a log , she almost flung it on the fire , and as she dusted her hands she ended , ‘ that 's what she tells me . |
| 30 | Mrs Gracie had come to associate herself so much with the family that she almost included herself in the purchase . |