Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 2 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 3 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 4 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time . |
| 7 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's delicious , ’ Melissa assured her after the first mouthful . |
| 9 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 10 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 11 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 12 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 13 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 14 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 15 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 16 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 17 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 18 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 19 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 20 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 21 | Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front . |
| 22 | He would happily have stood there kissing her till the next morning . |
| 23 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 24 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |
| 25 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 26 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 27 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 28 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 29 | In India in February , when Charles attempted to kiss her for the first time in public in four years , Diana defiantly turned away in a clear move to embarrass her husband . |
| 30 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |