Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT . |
| 2 | His mum was a big , volatile , typically Italian mamma who came to live in Britain in 1949 where she made her living as a cook for a medical family in North London until marrying Fred 's father who was Spanish . |
| 3 | She made it sound like a public execution , Christina thought . |
| 4 | She made it sound like a disease . |
| 5 | Twice she asked him to stay for a cup of tea , but he refused . |
| 6 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 7 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 8 | She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot . |
| 9 | She found her sitting on a bench beneath a stark tree in the college grounds , in a snowy landscape . |
| 10 | She nodded and sipped : he leaned his head forward and she brought the glass to his mouth : he finished it and she let it fall on a bush of discarded clothing as he swooped down with his hand , lifted her dress clear over her waist and then , as she struggled to help him , tugged it over her head . |
| 11 | And as she played she sang in a high contralto . |
| 12 | She allowed it to fall in a circle around her feet , and slipped her khaki shirt off over her head . |
| 13 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 14 | She could hear Mrs Lorimer shouting for her favourite lodger , then she heard her say in a loud voice , ‘ It 's a woman . |
| 15 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 16 | She watched me eat for a while , mumbled something and left . |
| 17 | Evelyn shuddered as she watched him crouch for a second , then spring up and take off jauntily like a half mangled insect . |
| 18 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 19 | A friend of a friend had recently married through Dateline so she thought it seemed worth a try . |
| 20 | She knew she sounded like a sulky little girl , but his news was a shattering disappointment . |
| 21 | In a dream , she saw him skid to a halt , taking in the scene at once as it must have appeared — his brother bending over his fiancée — and , thought Sarella in dismay , taking in my submissive expression as I stupidly allow this dark monster to maul me . |
| 22 | As she rounded the gates of the school she saw him sitting on a low wall , his little legs dangling , swinging backwards and forwards . |
| 23 | She saw it struggling against a mighty wind , but unable to smite anything tangible within its . |
| 24 | And she saw it dancing like a hole |
| 25 | We have a witness , however , who is certain that she saw you sitting in a window alcove at the end of the gallery much later on , perhaps as late as midnight . ’ |
| 26 | It was like a pit , and as she fell she clutched at a hand , but the hand turned into a foot and the foot kicked her . |
| 27 | Everywhere she went she worked like a trooper and her wonderful smile let you know she was enjoying everything she did . |
| 28 | She felt a warm sense of power as she kept him dangling for a moment . |
| 29 | Naylor Massingham demanded , growing more furious , she realised , the longer she kept him waiting for an answer . |
| 30 | She felt it swell like a balloon inflated by a pressure pump . |