Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his . |
2 | She flung it on the counter before Rachaela . |
3 | She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand . |
4 | She flung herself on the bed in a paroxysm of weeping , wailing like an animal in pain — until Mrs Taylor came running , and took her in her arms . |
5 | She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date . |
6 | She flung herself across the room , beating helplessly on the door , whispering his name over and over as if the force of her desire would bring him back . |
7 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
8 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
9 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
10 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
11 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
12 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
13 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
14 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
15 | Gingerly , she lowered herself onto the wall , and sat astride its smooth apex , still partially concealed by overhanging branches from the tree . |
16 | She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit . |
17 | She lacked none of the courage typical of her Aries star sign . |
18 | She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred . |
19 | She seated herself at the desk . |
20 | She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room . |
21 | Then she seated herself on the edge of the bed and , breathing deeply , raised the phone up to her ear . |
22 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
23 | She seated herself by the fireplace , and motioned the two men to sit . |
24 | She seated herself in the bay window and said to George , ‘ Are you not supposed to be at Cambridge ? |
25 | She seated herself in the row in front of me , but before she did so she looked round , perhaps to see if after all there was anyone present whom she recognised . |
26 | She plunged it through the Daine Thing , ignoring the clear fluid that squished out of the puncture , and drove it deep . |
27 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
28 | She led me through the throng . |
29 | She led her into the house . |
30 | She led her to the gate . |