Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She empowered him to get the tank , the section of drainpipe , the guttering . |
| 2 | She expected him to take the opportunity to cross-question her about the murder . |
| 3 | She said nothing , but hungrily returned to the carrion to take what more she could , as if she expected him to take the rest from her . |
| 4 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 5 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 6 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 7 | At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant . |
| 8 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 9 | She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered . |
| 10 | I pressed Vimla to show me her dancing and eventually , after first consulting with Chaman , she invited me to join the household on their rounds , or ‘ going on tolly ’ as they call it . |
| 11 | When she arrived at Lynx some hours later she found that the door to the office was propped open , and as soon as she entered she understood the reason . |
| 12 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 13 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 14 | he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money . |
| 15 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 16 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 17 | She told me to lift the lid , and there inside were packed hundreds of balls of different coloured wool . |
| 18 | You know when she told him to close the cupboard ? |
| 19 | As she turned he set the horse against her quickly , its strong shoulder nudging her away in another direction . |
| 20 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 21 | She taught him to read the words at the top of the page . |
| 22 | As she finished he took the needle from her . |
| 23 | She heard him cross the hall and go up the stairs . |
| 24 | Steve went quietly into the kitchen , she heard him opening the refrigerator door . |
| 25 | She thought she heard him praise the tinge of blood rising in her cheek , like the breast of chaffinches , and smell her skin like peach blossom and orange together . |
| 26 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 27 | Alarm bells rang with Liz when she heard it tells the story of an ageing , boozy Hollywood star who falls for a young construction worker she meets in a clinic . |
| 28 | From a distance of thirty feet she heard it clawing the earth . |
| 29 | He had been smiling at the screen , an expression which fell with such abruptness from his face when he looked at the doorway that Zambia was convinced SHe heard it hit the floor with a crack . |
| 30 | When she returned she felt the need to explain . |