Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 2 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 3 | where she weave it like that ? |
| 4 | As a first step , he or she identifies it by using a word-meaning which is conventionally taken to match the nature of the perception . |
| 5 | Hence , one person 's voting choice may be influenced by a party 's commitment to raise pensions , which leads him or her to support it despite its commitment to other policies — say increasing educational expenditure — with which he or she disagrees . |
| 6 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 7 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 8 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 9 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 10 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 11 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |
| 12 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 13 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 14 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |
| 15 | Mrs Barrie-Brown left Fresden to the Roman Research Trust , specifying in the codicil to her will that she wanted it to be turned into an educational centre . |
| 16 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 17 | Nor was the conversation doing anything other than drag down her spirits , so she brought it to a close by saying , ‘ I must go back to the office . |
| 18 | As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone . |
| 19 | And a clothes horse , so she had it in her lounge . |
| 20 | She hated it , and hated him , but she was no longer resisting him , so she accepted it in aching silence , desire overwhelming pride at last . |
| 21 | The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ . |
| 22 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 23 | It 's too heavy for her to carry , so she pulls it to pieces with her beak , holding it tightly in her talons . |
| 24 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 25 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 26 | This was attended by the daughters of the best society in Funchal until she closed it in 1892 . |
| 27 | until she gave it to his mouth , |
| 28 | He placed it in her arms and she clutched it to her bosom , with her handbag , the toe of her right foot gingerly touching ground . |
| 29 | Sidney Lee states that when Lambarde was presented to Queen Elizabeth I she complained to him that Shakespeare 's Richard II was played forty times earlier that year with seditious intent in streets and houses and she viewed it with suspicion . |
| 30 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |