Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 3 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 4 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 5 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 6 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 7 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 8 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 9 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 10 | She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down . |
| 11 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |
| 12 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 13 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 14 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 15 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 16 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 17 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 18 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
| 19 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 20 | Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile . |
| 21 | She found herself in the public library . |
| 22 | While the water steamed from the taps , she busied herself at the long table beneath the bathroom mirror , lifting the lids from the various jars and sniffing at them until she found the one she was searching for . |
| 23 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 24 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 25 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 26 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 27 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 28 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 29 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |
| 30 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |