Example sentences of "[prep] she [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only common factor was Mrs Marcia Williams ( now Lady Falkender ) , his private and political secretary , of whom I saw very little , but I saw enough of her to realise the immense influence she exercised over Harold Wilson . |
| 2 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 3 | From behind her came the sleepy groan of a child . |
| 4 | It was what Nigel wanted in theory , but in practice he could n't bear the whole thing ending acrimoniously , especially with her getting the last word . |
| 5 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 6 | Another afternoon she took me with her to deliver the knitted garments . |
| 7 | On the other hand Uma or Parvati , the Goddess seen as the cosmic mother , is always depicted together with Her consort the cosmic god Shiva . |
| 8 | ‘ Will we , misses ? ’ he asked and his air of total belief in her banished the last of Hari 's uncertainty . |
| 9 | Then he stepped away from her to address the other members of staff , who were still standing in curious groups , discussing the damage . |
| 10 | Travis had the same idea , for he moved away from her to remove the last of his clothes before turning to her again , his body moving over her , his legs gliding between hers so there was scarcely an inch of their two bodies that was not touching , and she was made vitally aware of his arousal . |
| 11 | She lay still as he stroked her like a cat , and the love juice began to ooze from her to dampen the whole area of her crotch . |
| 12 | Before her stretched the main room of the suite . |
| 13 | A silence long enough , I imagine , for her to use the fast-forward button . |
| 14 | He went downstairs with Dr Darnell and two others , and pulled aside the cloth just sufficiently for her to see the visible part of the face . |
| 15 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 16 | Mr Cubbage was like a cat on hot bricks , he was most distraught at Coleen 's decision to go to England , and he bombarded her with letters and flowers ; he could not wait for her return and for her to say the one word that would make her his wife . |
| 17 | David escorted her there on her first morning and was touchingly concerned for her , insisting on taking a cushion for her to soften the hard seat on the press benches and urging her to promise to leave the stuffy , dark-panelled room if she felt faint or troubled . |
| 18 | And waited for her to make the next move . |
| 19 | But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move . |
| 20 | Not that she would have fooled anyone as she was , but eighteen months of good food and expert surgery had transformed her , making the thousand yuan he 'd paid for her seem the merest trifle . |
| 21 | Yet — strangely — it did seem to be her concern , and — equally strangely — she could not decide why it should be so important for her to understand the true state of his feelings towards Doreen . |
| 22 | Inside , she was crying out that it was n't fair for her to survive the worst technological terrors that twenty-fifth-century man could devise , only to have her short life ended by the crude but effective mechanism of an old Steyr . |
| 23 | It was n't crucial at this stage to get her to step on to the glove repeatedly ; it was more important for her to develop the right attitude to the whole process . |
| 24 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 25 | But his first request to her surprised the old servant very much . |
| 26 | To her fell the heaviest chores … scrubbing of floors , carrying full pails of water , and so on . |
| 27 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 28 | She seemed able to find interest in any topic , a gift which led to her becoming the first regular columnist for the Manchester Guardian 's women 's page . |
| 29 | What made the annual gathering even worse was we always had to listen to her recite the twenty-third psalm , standing up there on the stage in her white dress , white socks , black shoes . |
| 30 | Marrying again and starting a family had found her coping with a highly-gifted child , and this had led to her founding the National Association for Parents of Gifted Children in order to help families who find themselves thrown by their brilliant off-spring and to encourage local authorities to make provision for them . |