Example sentences of "[prep] she [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions . |
| 2 | Nell was sitting alone at a table in the dining car working on her interminable lists ( those usually clipped to the clipboard ) and I sat down opposite her feeling ashamed of myself . |
| 3 | Ken 's equally eccentric behaviour towards her became evident early on in the out-of-town try-outs in Brighton , Liverpool and Oxford . |
| 4 | The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty . |
| 5 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 6 | His memory of her became dulled and blocked , a stalemate of the imagination that began to have the taste of sloth and suicide , like the evil torpor that can ensue from spending night after night without a dream . |
| 7 | How naïve of her to let Roman de Sciorto 's powerful charm override her normal caution ! |
| 8 | In Cork her religious enthusiasm and the power of her preaching alarmed friends . |
| 9 | Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 10 | Every part of her felt open to him , wanting him , needing the fulfilment only he could give . |
| 11 | He suddenly remembered writing cheery lewd limericks with her on a train to Yugoslavia , and worrying about the possibility of her getting pregnant there with the child he longed for , bothering about the bad doctors and the heat . |
| 12 | ‘ There was no question of her getting preferential treatment because she is the Secretary of State 's mother . |
| 13 | She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else . |
| 14 | This was one aspect of her following human emotions where they took her , into many depths and intensities , that has yet hardly had a place in a novel . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 16 | It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant . |
| 17 | LITTLE Laura Davies , who is critically ill following rejection of her transplanted small intestine , was last night facing a massive new operation , to replace her entire digestive system . |
| 18 | Marriage had effectively put paid to her career as an actress , and between household tasks she busied herself penning articles protesting at the pressures on people like her to cook beautiful meals and write novels like Margaret Drabble . |
| 19 | I 'm standing behind her feeling nice and cold and angry , but I let her ask the questions so I can see how this game is played . |
| 20 | In remembering that interview , however , Fabia also remembered that Ven had actually thought it necessary to warn Lubor against her asking personal questions about him . |
| 21 | My relations with her became cold , but correct . |
| 22 | It 's the trend which has seen Martina Navratilova arrange her playing schedule around selected tournaments compatible with her receiving minimal strain on her knees and back . |
| 23 | Well you 'd have somebody had to go in with her to make sure she did n't take anything that belongs to him |
| 24 | A blaster 's laser could cut through some metals , but Ace had a nasty feeling that even if the material above her proved susceptible , she might expend her entire powerpack on it without much effect . |
| 25 | Even when the need in her grew strong in the dead of night and she lay dose to his slack body , caressing him and urging him , he was never able to fulfil the need in her . |
| 26 | ‘ I ought to haff got to my tree by now , ’ she told herself presently , in her lilting Welsh voice . |
| 27 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 28 | Hers is a one-in-a-million case which results in her turning blue and stopping breathing whenever she becomes excited or agitated . |
| 29 | Abruptly , unexpectedly the anger simmering inside her reached boiling point . |
| 30 | It sustained her when the pain inside her became near-unbearable , and it was not for sharing . |