Example sentences of "[vb past] she [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Goldsmiths referred her to Sir Edmond 's will , and she withdrew .
2 Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby .
3 THE PRINCESS of Wales met one of her heroines when Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited her at Kensington Palace .
4 When the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] visited her at Ekenge in 1895 , she found Miss Slessor ‘ has lost most of her missionary ideas and bullies the native chiefs in their own tongue … and is regarded by the other missionaries as mad and dangerous ’ .
5 Her parents visited her in October and photographs and videos from their trip will be shown at the Methodist Church on February 12 .
6 In fact , when Chris , Sara , Michael and I visited her in hospital , it was she who cheered us up and made us laugh !
7 Yet when Ruksana Khan was attacked , the Home Secretary visited her in hospital and everything .
8 What words of greeting did the angel give to Mary when he visited her in Nazareth ?
9 According to the Rev. William Forster , who visited her in jail , she had prayed that the weather on the day of her execution should be fine .
10 Weeks later , her boyfriend visited her from Germany .
11 It was also a pleasant parish , and the vicar 's wife was very kind to Anna and shielded her from exploitation .
12 It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness .
13 He had n't seen her , but the closeness of him moved her to flight .
14 He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away .
15 Lucy stepped into her warmest black and white trousers and high-necked top , and when the appetising aroma of sizzling bacon and eggs drew her towards breakfast she found the dining-room to be nicely heated by the logs blazing in the large open fireplace .
16 Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel .
17 Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death .
18 The doctor provided her with anti-depressants .
19 She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people .
20 Karen realised that her goal was to find a job which was challenging and interesting and which provided her with opportunities for foreign travel .
21 Whoever owned the cabin had wide-ranging interests — apart from several well-thumbed fishing journals and a variety of motoring magazines , there were numerous glossies that provided her with food for thought .
22 He invited her to lunch at his club for international journalists in Carlton House Terrace .
23 The friendly note invited her to lunch .
24 My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right .
25 A week later , however , when Branson walked into the shop close to the Virgin offices in Portobello Road where Joan worked , selling Victorian advertising ephemera , and invited her to lunch , she accepted .
26 Then just as she was preparing to leave to return to her flat her mother invited her to Sunday lunch .
27 Charles was one such , and he invited her to Highgrove to work her magic .
28 One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London .
29 He made persistent phone calls to Lynsey , visited her home , invited her to drinks and dinner — and trapped her in his surgery when he was alone .
30 I invited her for tea .
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