Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 2 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 3 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 4 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 5 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 7 | Teenagers like Kelly say the tough fines have trapped her into a life of prostitution . |
| 8 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 9 | They had shopped round Belfast and she had teased her with the idea that this Parr was very rich , they had gone by train to Dublin and she had claimed he was ‘ hand in glove ’ with government circles there . |
| 10 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 11 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 12 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 13 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 14 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 15 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 16 | I 'd never considered her as a wife . " |
| 17 | Her disenchantment with the Foreign Office , already evident over Rhodesia and the EEC , came to a head during the Falklands War and she brought in Sir Anthony Parsons ( who had impressed her during the war when he was ambassador to the United Nations ) to advise on foreign affairs and appointed Roger Jackling to advise on defence . |
| 18 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 19 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 20 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 21 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 22 | He was some stray who had reminded her of the Scarabae agent . |
| 23 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 24 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 25 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 26 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 27 | She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum . |
| 28 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 29 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 30 | In her present fragile state , an inquisition , no matter how well-intentioned , would have shattered her into a million pieces . |