Example sentences of "[verb] she in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 2 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 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 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 5 | Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet . |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 7 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 8 | The same happened at the Commonwealth Tournament later in the year — and to this day she wonders if this behaviour had something to do with the fact that the selectors did not include her in the 1984 match at Muirfield . |
| 9 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 12 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 13 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 14 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 15 | Britain 's golden girl missed out by a stride on an £86,000 jackpot when arch-rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick pipped her in the 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF Grand Prix final and also won the women 's overall title . |
| 16 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 17 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |
| 18 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 19 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
| 20 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 21 | It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ? |
| 22 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 23 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 24 | I remember the scandal surrounding her in the Seventies , when she appeared to be just a naive young girl caught up in the trappings of fame . |
| 25 | He soon calmed down , then went across and fussed over her to make up for the rumpus , though it had n't bothered her in the slightest . |
| 26 | It had n't bothered her in the slightest . |
| 27 | Charlie followed Mrs Shorrocks into Number 110 , joined her in the tiny kitchen and collapsed on to a wooden chair . |
| 28 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 29 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 30 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |