Example sentences of "she [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leo Vincey is forced by the events of She towards the same decision as the one which destroyed his counterpart Kallikrates . |
| 2 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 3 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 4 | Lek , the thirty-year-old maid installed for her along with the furniture by the Committee , telling her about the nine children and the mother up-country she supports and whom she rarely sees . |
| 5 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 7 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 8 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 9 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 10 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 11 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
| 12 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 13 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 14 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 15 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 16 | The stairs were cold and draughty and the light was n't good , but she 'd placed herself so that the agency 's receptionist would be able to see her through the glass-panelled door if she should happen to glance up . |
| 17 | Seizing her wrist , he hauled her to her feet and dragged her through the small hall and into a side-room with a wide , specially designed window on the north wall . |
| 18 | When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer . |
| 19 | By now Kelly needed extensive physiotheraphy several times a day to rid her of the excess mucus that clogged her lungs . |
| 20 | If you feel that your child may be mixing with youngsters who sniff glue , you could talk to your child and warn him or her of the possible risks and dangers involved . |
| 21 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 22 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 23 | Pulling the door open further , Rune waved her towards the outer room and the telephone . |
| 24 | He followed her down , trapping her against the upholstered arm and his hard muscular body . |
| 25 | He wo n't allow her near the second floor so she 's come to us . ’ |
| 26 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 27 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 28 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 29 | There 's Roger ( Hugh Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ) , big noises in the world of advertising jingles trying vainly to repress the scars of a cot death tragedy , good-hearted but batty cat-loving loner Maggie ( Emma Thompson ) gagging for ‘ it ’ but a victim of the very self-help manuals she publishes and sexy Sarah , whose predilection for married men has landed her with the overgrown child that is Brian ( Tony Slattery doing his worst ) . |
| 30 | I think it was in my mind to ask Poppy to dance , to bring her into the lighted room and behave perfectly normally . |