Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ribbons she laid beside her on the bed and she crushed the crown in her hands until the sharp pieces of broken straw pricked her , hurt her . |
| 2 | With as much dignity as she could muster , she stalked past him into the bathroom . |
| 3 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 4 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
| 5 | She bumped into someone in the fog , someone tall and strong , and knew she was caught . |
| 6 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
| 7 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
| 8 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 9 | Smiling shakily back and in response to his urging , she sank with him to the floor . |
| 10 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 11 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
| 12 | She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 13 | Her legs felt absolutely leaden as she trudged after him towards the house . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 15 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 16 | She came with him to the door . |
| 17 | She came with him to the door , and the light from the hall cut an orange path across the roadway . |
| 18 | She came with him to the door , uneasy , perhaps scared . |
| 19 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 20 | ‘ So since he asked for you again , ’ Charlie went on as she climbed past him into the back of the cab , ‘ make sure that whatever you did for him , you just keep on doing it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 22 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 23 | She turned towards him on the pew and put her hands up and caught his collar . |
| 24 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 25 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 26 | She nodded from one to the other ; then watched the young man open the door and stand aside to allow his wife to pass before him . |
| 27 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 28 | She could imagine what would be said if she arrived with one at the house in Newcastle Place . |
| 29 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |
| 30 | This time Mr and Mrs Dare were alone , and she enjoyed the half-hour she spent with them over the study fire . |