Example sentences of "[prep] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 2 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 3 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 4 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 5 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 6 | The others gaze after her in a casual way and resume their Beatles medley . |
| 7 | Leo Vincey is forced by the events of She towards the same decision as the one which destroyed his counterpart Kallikrates . |
| 8 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 9 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 10 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 11 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 12 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 13 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 14 | On Luke 's advice , she had n't mentioned any of his misgivings about the deal she had struck , and the woman now behaved towards her with a patronising graciousness that Folly found intensely irritating . |
| 15 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 16 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 17 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 18 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 19 | Hurrying towards her across a central green which had been planted out with trees and flowers . |
| 20 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 21 | He stirred and woke and stretched out his hand towards her in an enquiring and generous fashion . |
| 22 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 23 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 24 | Brunskill , winner of the Shildon Rail Trail race on Sunday , also had Stansmore in her sights from the start and burst past her on a downhill section after two miles to win by a comfortable 15 seconds . |
| 25 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
| 27 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 28 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 30 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |