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Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [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	Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby .
8	She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis .
9	She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared .
10	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 .
11	Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past .
12	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 .
13	But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged .
14	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 .
15	God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch .
16	When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society .
17	And she asked me for the fifty P .
18	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 .
19	I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times .
20	‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers .
21	She found them in the Green Room .
22	To cover the fact that she had far too many feelings altogether , she ignored him for the first part of the morning .
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	‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time .
26	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 .
27	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 .
28	She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model .
29	She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions .
30	‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language .