Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she has n't had much success lately has she with her Blind Date people ? |
| 2 | Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child-boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare . |
| 3 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 4 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 5 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 6 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 7 | The fine mist at the edges of the room seemed to be drifting closer , enveloping her in its clinging tendrils . |
| 8 | The role enables the researcher to gain the confidence of the group that accepts her in her false role . |
| 9 | I do not introduce her to my other friends . |
| 10 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 11 | His name on her lips was like a plea , and with one swift movement he gathered her into his arms , pressing her against his powerful chest . |
| 12 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 13 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
| 14 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 15 | Roger , overtaking her in his ramshackle car , pulled up and opened the door . |
| 16 | He fondled her between her long legs for a long time , and she remained still for him . |
| 17 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 18 | She was elderly and although she went to church on a Sunday , I did n't feel that I could trouble her with my religious affairs . |
| 19 | Jonathan prodded her with his average-sized weapon . |
| 20 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 21 | These , when they hatch , provide her with her first work force . |
| 22 | Like a dam bursting , her feelings overwhelmed her with their sudden surge . |
| 23 | With so much specialised knowledge , which would qualify her for nothing much except a pilot 's certificate , with her wellingtons over which the mud of many tides had dried , she had the air of something aquatic , a demon from the depths , perhaps . |
| 24 | She looked disappointed , so Toby had obviously disarmed her with his usual charm , and had probably promised some expenses , too . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not still trying to accuse her of something underhand , are you ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ My dear Gwendolen , ’ he cut in impatiently , disengaging her from his new blazer . |
| 27 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
| 28 | She was shivering against him , and he helped her back to the fire and bundled her in his own bedroll ; but she kept her arms about him . |
| 29 | As he dropped her outside her flat Merrill felt a small hollow of apprehension open up in her stomach . |
| 30 | Those days seemed such a very long time ago , and seeing Alice now , so chic , so elegant , it was almost impossible to remember her in her grey-and-white-striped uniform and white cap , calling Madeleine ‘ Miss ’ and Aubrey ‘ Master ’ ! |