Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
2 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
3 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
4 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
5 | The two men , one called Willie and the other called Arthur , were standing with their caps on , and as she walked towards them the man called Mike , the big one , said to her , ‘ Sorry I was rough on you , miss . ’ |
6 | Desperately trying to think of something to say , she heard behind her the sound of Ross clearing his throat . |
7 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
8 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
9 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
10 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
11 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |