Example sentences of "[prep] she [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every other Thursday afternoon at four o'clock until about twenty past she had this bald man with the brightly striped ties and the wooden leg . |
| 2 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |
| 3 | But the pressure did n't help , and nor did the night air , nor any of the great machinery of circumstance that had , without her realising it , been combining against her to produce this moment . |
| 4 | Although in her writing this objection is expressed in literary , not architectural , terms , it chimes exactly with Sir John Soane 's criticism of NeoGothic : ‘ Irregularity is … too generally admitted . ’ |
| 5 | She is probably a price-conscious shopper ( nearly everyone claims to be these days ) , but in her shopping this may be reflected in a reliance on branded goods bought at Asda , or private label from the Co-op . |
| 6 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 7 | How terrible it must be for her to attend this service for Mrs Wright whose baby had survived and while the Padre was speaking the Collector accompanied his words with a silent , sympathetic prayer for Mrs Bennett : " O God , whose ways are hidden and thy works most wonderful , who makest nothing in vain , and lovest all that thou hast made , Comfort this thy servant whose heart is sore smitten and oppressed … " but the rest of the prayer was no longer in his mind , stolen no doubt by the foxes of despair that continued to raid his beliefs … in any case , it faded into a mournful reverie in which he sought an explanation for the death of Mrs Bennett 's child . |
| 8 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 9 | It was OK for her to do this kind of thing when in a mediumistic trance , but this was n't quite that , was it ? |
| 10 | The case for her doing this , in the interests of the party , looks stronger after the Queen 's Speech . |
| 11 | It 's hard for her to work this out . |
| 12 | Anyway , she went to she took this sister 's post in The Yale |
| 13 | And she came in with and it was bad enough him going off and leaving her , erm without her finding this as well . |
| 14 | Had he produced a no-hoper , the pressure on her to quit this summer would have started growing on Tuesday evening . |
| 15 | Cara had so set her heart , everything , on her doing this job for her , and she — she had blown it ! |
| 16 | I do n't know why it had occurred to her to make this observation . |