Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he felt sure he would win her in the end , he was annoyed at her continuing coyness . |
| 2 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 3 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 4 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 5 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 6 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 7 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 8 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 9 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 10 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
| 11 | Sarah closed her eyes when he lifted her nightdress and entered her with no show of sentiment . |
| 12 | First pouring boiling water over the used coffee grounds , Trent led Mariana through to the living-room , seating her on the sofa . |
| 13 | Courteously seating her inside the car first , he walked round to the driver 's side , and when he had settled himself behind the wheel asked unexpectedly , ‘ Have you visited one of our pubs yet ? ’ |
| 14 | I ca n't respect her as an aunt . |
| 15 | Carole King , the sharpest female lyricist of all time , ponders going all the way and whether her lover would still respect her in the morning . |
| 16 | No matter how hard she protested that The Delinquents was not soft porn , the film transformed her into the sex-siren she secretly desired to become . |
| 17 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 18 | She liked Robert Urquhart and was attracted to him , even trusted him , unlike Spittals who was no doubt gleefully stabbing her in the back at that moment . |
| 19 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 20 | He parted her thighs fiercely , and she moaned as his head sank , his tongue driving her to a frenzy . |
| 21 | Maggie was taking a plane to London that night and Sheila and Mona were driving her to the airport . |
| 22 | Lucenzo crushed her body closer to his , driving her into a fast , whirling quickstep , his thighs moving against hers with hard , male insistence . |
| 23 | Send her round the world three times . |
| 24 | He grasped her around the waist , his hands warm and hard through the thin silk of her dress as he steadied her , and Fran felt her heart run wild . |
| 25 | One large , official hand grasped her by the elbow . |
| 26 | A doctor who suspected anorexia referred her to a psychiatrist . |
| 27 | Her doctor was convinced that most of Edith 's problems were psychosomatic , but he referred her to a specialist who was interested in such cases . |
| 28 | Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help . |
| 29 | They promptly referred her to a housing association which has found her a three-bedroomed house . |
| 30 | I suspected that the lesion might by pyogenic granuloma and referred her to the dermatology outpatient clinic . |