Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated . |
| 2 | She could n't guess why Sandra Kettering in her detailed instructions had arranged for her to be there and for that mistake to be made . |
| 3 | He 'd known perfectly well how she 'd react when he 'd arranged for her to be taken on for this play . |
| 4 | ‘ That was why , when she showed promise as an artist , my mother-in-law arranged for her to be trained in Paris — and even provided money for the purpose . ’ |
| 5 | I 've phoned the doctor , and he 's arranged for her to be admitted to hospital for observation , or whatever they do . |
| 6 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 7 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 8 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
| 9 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 10 | The warmth from his palm curled through her like smoke . |
| 11 | The lady went out and drove away and Joe , who had witnessed the meeting , went into the kitchen where Mary was saying to Helen , ‘ Eeh ! the lies rolled off her like butter off a hot griddle . ’ |
| 12 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 13 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 14 | We grew up together , I 've looked after her by myself from when she was two , which was when I split up from her father . |
| 15 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 16 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 17 | Formal education was shelved , which was a relief , because the unctuous kind of diligence expected of her at school had convinced her that she was both stupid and sinful . |
| 18 | A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom , its legs brushing her cheek . |
| 19 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 20 | A complaint was made to the industrial tribunal by Mrs Gunning that Mirror Newspapers had unlawfully discriminated against her in relation to ‘ employment ’ by refusing or deliberately omitting to offer her employment contrary to Section 6(1) ( c ) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . |
| 21 | She rearranged herself in another pose , her legs curled under her like cat . |
| 22 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 23 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 24 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 25 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 26 | She kicked out at him as he covered her body with his but he held her tight and rolled with her into the protection of the trees . |
| 27 | Inside her she felt a power she could never manage to express ; it was trapped inside her like water under the ground and she was the only one with the dowser 's twigs who knew where it lay and could bring it to the surface . |
| 28 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 29 | A wonderful change had come over her since the episode with the cockchafers . |
| 30 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |