Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
| 32 | She walked past him to the door , and though he followed and came quickly up to her side he did not again offer her his hand . |
| 33 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 34 | She walked past him into the room , which was very similar to her own in style , but which bore the unmistakably masculine stamp of its occupant . |
| 35 | She walked past him into the big sitting-room and he followed her , lounging insolently against the door-frame as once more his eyes seemed to strip her . |
| 36 | She walked with him to the bus-stop , would not let him walk her back to the flat , said not to follow her ; she 'd watch , be angry . |
| 37 | She walked with him to the garage , and as he got into her car she leaned forward and kissed his cheek lightly . |
| 38 | ‘ This is only the beginning , you know , ’ he said one day as she walked with him round the garden . |
| 39 | She felt again the fear she had known when she walked into him in the dark passage . |
| 40 | ‘ Would you like a cup of coffee ? ’ he said to her at a station , and she grinned at him over the cardboard beaker , holding it with both hands . |
| 41 | Agnes hurried into the back shop , turned up the gas jet , quickly transferred two dozen sugar mice to one fancy box and six chocolate cats to another ; and when she returned with them into the shop they both exclaimed , and it was the young woman who said , ‘ What pretty boxes ! |
| 42 | Was she employed by you in the QW ? |
| 43 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 44 | She stiffened beside him in the darkness , absorbing the bitter truth . |
| 45 | She brushed by him in the dark , and her closeness , brought a sudden tingling which raised the short hairs on his skin for a moment ; then she was gone , and light from the hallway spilled into the room from the half-open door . |
| 46 | She decided against it in the end , not because she was afraid of any brutish remarks he might — not might , would , she corrected — make when he saw her , but because , from where she viewed it , this was going to be a tough enough weekend without her inviting hassle before it began . |
| 47 | ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others . |
| 48 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 49 | ‘ I know very little about her , although she worked for him in the war too . |
| 50 | She pulled at it with the tip of her fingers , catching it as it fell . |
| 51 | She waved at him from the door and went down to the street . |
| 52 | She kneels to him along the leaning |
| 53 | She was afraid that he would wake Peter if she talked to him in the hall . |
| 54 | This she took with her in the trap when she left to go to the market . |
| 55 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 56 | She stared at him over the rim of her cup . |
| 57 | Tilda did not understand what he was doing , but she stared at him from the height of the mast until he became conscious of her , and turned round . |
| 58 | Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet . |
| 59 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 60 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |