Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Turning abruptly , she flung it with a clash into the fireplace ; then she went out and got into the car . |
2 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
3 | When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end . |
4 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
5 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
6 | ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’ |
7 | She dismissed me with a jerk of her head and took the call . |
8 | I mean she loves it with the kids |
9 | Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists . |
10 | But she stopped me with a look . |
11 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
12 | She fixed me with a look of vengeance and demanded the home phone number of the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures . |
13 | She fixed him with a stare , defying him to think otherwise . |
14 | She fixed him with a look and shifted her weight . |
15 | Later she sprays him with an atomiser . |
16 | Then she woke him with a cup of tea . |
17 | She filled him with a kind of exultation he had never experienced before and he found himself shaking his head . |
18 | The prosecution claim she blasted him with a shotgun because he was having an affair . |
19 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |
20 | ‘ I think he 'd like to be Pope , ’ she told them with a sort of weary insight . |
21 | ‘ My only desire is to ensure that I remain dry-eyed , ’ she told him with a detachment she certainly did n't feel . |
22 | A thick , choking smoke arose but the rug began to burn and she dropped it with a cry . |
23 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
24 | She acknowledged it with a shy , ducking movement of her head and a slight deepening of colour on her vase-shaped cheekbones . |
25 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
26 | She pressed it with the tip of her index finger , trying to figure out what it could be . |
27 | She threatened him with a knife … he pushed her away in self defence and the knife plunged into her back . |
28 | But he says he was defending himself when she threatened him with a knife . |
29 | A masked man who broke into a woman 's house at Newbiggin , Northumberland , fled empty handed when she threatened him with a walking stick . |
30 | She touched him with a hunger she had not known she harboured inside her . |