Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else she turns to him in the middle of dinner and asks : ‘ What 's happening about the Matterhorn , Howard ? |
| 2 | She sits beside me in the grass , not looking at me , picking cloverleaves between her feet . |
| 3 | She refers to them as the ‘ Children Of The Crown ’ . |
| 4 | What 's the midwife 's job when she cares for you after the birth ? |
| 5 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 6 | She kneels to him along the leaning |
| 7 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 8 | She walks past me into the living room , and I follow like her student nurse . |
| 9 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 10 | There are cases where , from an economic point of view , the marriage valuables represent the purchase of a husband by the bride rather than vice versa , and the general European pattern , which is met with in many other parts of the world , is for the principal payment to be the bride 's " dowry " , a set of assets which she brings with her into the marriage as a part of her inheritance from her own kin . |
| 11 | But Emily 's great wish from childhood , confided to her small admirer David on his first visit , is to be a lady , and when her beauty and refinement attract David 's glamorous friend Steerforth , she elopes with him in the hope that he will bring her home a lady . |