Example sentences of "she [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | It is , however , the case that the man who approaches the whore as a client , on her terms that is , is usually mocked in the fabliau : see , for example , Le Prestre et Alison , described in Chapter 1 , or La vieille Truande , " The old beggarwoman " , in which an old woman manipulates an attractive young squire into either " embracing " her or carrying her across a river — an act which in fact becomes a physical embrace — to " " la grans risee " " , " the great laughter " , of the witnesses . |
2 | But a few instants later , she needed no other support than the strong arms that seized her and gathered her to a broad chest , the lips in her hair uttering the words that sent the blood rushing through her veins . |
3 | Not only was he being fearfully indiscreet , but it was said that he had been foolish enough actually to marry her and to install her in a cottage in the palace grounds . |
4 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
5 | Perhaps it was at that same party that Marevna , who stayed until dawn , saw Modigliani and Beatrice fighting ferociously until Modi grabbed her and flung her through a closed window . |
6 | She was nearly home and someone jumped out at her and battered her with a piece of wood . |
7 | To her surprise , a ground hostess met her and took her to a VIP lounge , where Adam was waiting . |
8 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
9 | ‘ Hi , Gran , ’ he said with more enthusiasm , went across to her and embraced her with a bearlike hug . |
10 | He imagined himself walking up to her and presenting her with a single red rose . |
11 | But how naughty of you to pluck her and set her in a vase that only you see ! |
12 | He wooed her and wed her within a few months . |
13 | DETECTIVES are hunting two youths who kidnapped a woman driver , sexually assaulted her and abandoned her in a burning car . |
14 | During the attack he grabbed her and pushed her against a conference table , she told detectives . |
15 | He took the tablets from her and swallowed them with a mouthful of water . |
16 | And afterwards there was just a feeling of let-down , of wanting him to hold her and kiss her and pet her like a little girl . |
17 | Cecil Jackson has been jailed for life for the murder of his wife : he strangled her and dumped her in a bath of acid . |
18 | Rourke went over to her and drew her towards a chair . |
19 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |