Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Never once had she referred to it at all .
2 She lived with him for 11 years .
3 As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back .
4 She gazed at him in blank astonishment .
5 She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home .
6 She gazed at me with ice-blue eyes and murmured , ‘ I see . ’
7 She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married .
8 She says she thinks of him as one of her own children .
9 What did she know of him after all ?
10 I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity .
11 They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out .
12 She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned .
13 So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed .
14 Why was she looking at me like that ?
15 She separated from him in 1929 and later divorced him .
16 Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair .
17 She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " .
18 Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt .
19 And she stuck by him through all that . ’
20 I am starkly awake , and she delivers to me through sleepy lips the cause of her outcry .
21 She glanced at him in quick surprise , wondering what sort of favour he could possibly have in mind .
22 She grabbed at it in irritable haste .
23 She confided in him above all others .
24 She worked for her for eighteen years .
25 She reached for him with one blind hand .
26 Stopping in her tracks , she stared at him with cool , blank eyes and freed her arm .
27 She stared at him with defiant hazel eyes .
28 She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes .
29 But … you said — ’ Horror-struck , she stared at him with frightened eyes .
30 But — ’ she stared at him with saucer-wide eyes ‘ — are n't you furious with me ? ’
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