Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 33 | I 've burnt half the food waiting for you , ’ Stephen snapped impatiently as she joined him by the smoking barbecue . |
| 34 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 35 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 36 | She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove . |
| 37 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 38 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
| 39 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 40 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 41 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 42 | She hustled him to the far side of the street . |
| 43 | She watched him through the open door , saw him click on the gallery light — tall , virile , handsome , strong … |
| 44 | And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk . |
| 45 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 46 | He turned back again to the pill-box and , as he began to run towards it , she shoved him into the empty channel on the seaward side of the Lock . |
| 47 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 48 | Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished . |
| 49 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 50 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 51 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 52 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 53 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 54 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 55 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 56 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 57 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 58 | She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk ! |
| 59 | To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins . |
| 60 | A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan . |