Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The ribbons she laid beside her on the bed and she crushed the crown in her hands until the sharp pieces of broken straw pricked her , hurt her . |
2 | With as much dignity as she could muster , she stalked past him into the bathroom . |
3 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
4 | She beamed at him over the rim of her glass . |
5 | Then she peered at him over the barrier of her firmly folded arms and expressed a thought that had occurred to her before , but that now she felt impress itself on her even more strongly . |
6 | She peered at him through the semi-darkness . |
7 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
8 | Smiling shakily back and in response to his urging , she sank with him to the floor . |
9 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
10 | She scuffed at it with the tip of one brown brogue but it did not even smudge . |
11 | She tiptoed past them to the chest of drawers , took out a pair of shorts and a sweatshirt and slipped back downstairs to the kitchen . |
12 | Her legs felt absolutely leaden as she trudged after him towards the house . |
13 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
14 | She came with him to the door . |
15 | She came with him to the door , and the light from the hall cut an orange path across the roadway . |
16 | She came with him to the door , uneasy , perhaps scared . |
17 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
18 | ‘ So since he asked for you again , ’ Charlie went on as she climbed past him into the back of the cab , ‘ make sure that whatever you did for him , you just keep on doing it . ’ |
19 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
20 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
21 | She turned towards him on the pew and put her hands up and caught his collar . |
22 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
23 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
24 | This time Mr and Mrs Dare were alone , and she enjoyed the half-hour she spent with them over the study fire . |
25 | Rachel was pale as she walked beside him into the cool marble courtyard , the towering stone fountain echoing beneath the glass dome . |
26 | Nellie 's face took on a hard look as she walked beside him along the tiled corridor . |
27 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said levelly as she walked past him through the door he held open . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |