Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 2 | She thinks it is simply awful that being successful and ( reading the ill-camouflaged sub-text ) gorgeous means that men wo n't chat her up , admire her breasts or perceive her as a sexual creature . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll go and collect her , or meet her on the way home . |
| 4 | I was thinking maybe next weekend I might or meet her for the day |
| 5 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 6 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 7 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 8 | It is , however , the case that the man who approaches the whore as a client , on her terms that is , is usually mocked in the fabliau : see , for example , Le Prestre et Alison , described in Chapter 1 , or La vieille Truande , " The old beggarwoman " , in which an old woman manipulates an attractive young squire into either " embracing " her or carrying her across a river — an act which in fact becomes a physical embrace — to " " la grans risee " " , " the great laughter " , of the witnesses . |
| 9 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 10 | For a time DeVore simply watched her , following her every movement with the hidden cameras , switching from screen to screen , zooming in to focus on her face or watching her from the far side of the room . |
| 11 | God had n't fully maintained His help to keep condescension from her tone or to prepare her for the answer when it came : ‘ Yes , I went to school , ma'am . |
| 12 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 13 | Something was beginning to happen to her , an excitement , a wildness that caught her by the throat . |
| 14 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 15 | There was a cruel taunt in his voice that cut her to the quick . |
| 16 | Anything would have been better than this ice-cold contempt that cut her to the bone . |
| 17 | It had been in his eyes when he lay on the bed staring rigidly at the ceiling , a terrifying , heart-rending pain that cut her to the bone . |
| 18 | There was something about Rourke that stirred her in a way no other man had ever done … but , even so , a tiny voice of caution held her back . |
| 19 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 20 | Heat flared along her veins , ripple after ripple of heady sensation that shook her to the very depths . |
| 21 | Her head lay next to the thin wall that separated her from the two of them . |
| 22 | There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild . |
| 23 | Best of all Miss Martineau writes with a wry humour — of the karaoke bar that bans her as a foreigner and then welcomes her lest her Japanese host lose face ; of the popularity of sado-masochistic pornography , but without pubic hair ; of the burglar who first took his shoes off . |
| 24 | And that faced her with a course of action which , for some obscure reason , seemed rather distasteful now . |
| 25 | The chill of fear and loneliness that had penetrated her very bones was suddenly consumed by the fury that engulfed her like a wave . |
| 26 | Ariel , watching , wished that she too could defy the bonds that tied her to the earth , and her blood leapt with Dulé 's ascent . |
| 27 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 28 | The result is a set of pictures that expose her as a fabulous vamp with more definition than Wolf and more powerful pectorals than Panther . |
| 29 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 30 | THE gritty determination that took her to the top as Coronation Street 's Ivy has always been there . |