Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] she the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 2 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 3 | One day he will , and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress . ’ |
| 4 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 5 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 6 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 7 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 8 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 9 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 10 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 11 | His wife hated their life here in Munding , and what had happened in the ice-bound park at Easterness had become for her the final bitter vindication of that hate . |
| 12 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
| 13 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 14 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 15 | In the long opening mime section Bocca 's graceful arrogance was eloquently coupled to the desperate impatience to meet Nikiya ( Viviana Durante ) , and once dancing with her the two qualities sparked into a heady ardour . |
| 16 | But as he walked at her side through the dark halls of the Grail Castle , he remembered , and wished not to remember , that she might well have within her the strange power that could awaken all manner of sleeping bewitchments and lost enchantments . |
| 17 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 18 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 19 | Perhaps she would be angry if , by trying to impose responsibility on her daughter by giving her the vote , we were also taking from her the only comfort which she has , namely that when she is older she will change all that . |
| 20 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 21 | It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick . |
| 22 | A lifelong member of the Oxford Cottage Improvement Society , Violet Butler joined the Charity Organization Society 's local branch , and her links with the Christian Social Union encouraged in her the unsectarian broad-church outlook that was taken for granted within a family so deeply influenced by Thomas Arnold , T. H. Green , and Henry Scott Holland [ qq.v . ] . |
| 23 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 24 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 25 | She tried to get , she 's tried to get started making , doing her own business , spoke to her the other day and she 's , well , Pat spoke to her on Sunday and she got more out of her than I did |
| 26 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 27 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 28 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 29 | Thank goodness , though that for all he was n't so free with his smiles he had a terrific sense of humour and had not held against her the blunt , not to say impolite way she 'd asked if he was prepared to give her an interview . |
| 30 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |