Example sentences of "[verb] she [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 2 | And then Raynor entered her with a strong swift movement , and the fires engulfed them both . |
| 3 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 5 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 6 | And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park . |
| 7 | Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park . |
| 8 | A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park . |
| 9 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 10 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 11 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 12 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 13 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 14 | For as she turned towards him , a great fall of bright copper hair , loosened by the wild chase , came cascading about her shoulders and fell to her waist , enveloping her in a rippling sheet of flame . |
| 15 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 16 | It drew her to a big yellow truck , where a dark scarf of smoke tugged across the pavement . |
| 17 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 18 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 19 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 20 | In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor . |
| 21 | Without a word , Lucenzo offered her a jug of coffee and flicked a quick finger at the alert barman , who provided her with a fresh cup . |
| 22 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 23 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 24 | ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life . |
| 25 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 26 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 27 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 28 | He fixed her with a cool stare . |
| 29 | He fixed her with a bloodshot eye . |
| 30 | He fixed her with a glittering eye . |