Example sentences of "she [vb past] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 5 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 6 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 7 | She saw them for the first time about half way through the second week . |
| 8 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | She presented them with the annual Child of Achievement awards , given to children who 've overcome extraordinary difficulties just to live a normal life . |
| 11 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |