Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] she [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , sir , I fear there is nothing you can do except what is done already , which is to keep Mrs Browning calm and quiet and endeavour to feed her nourishing food to give her back some strength . ’ |
| 3 | He stopped beside her chair , reaching with easy strength to pull her up in front of him . |
| 4 | But even more vividly she recalled her own fall and Silas 's swift leap across the narrow stream to sweep her up into his arms . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll be safe enough , but I 've a feeling it will be a long job to get her back on an even keel . |
| 6 | This served as a great incentive to spur her on . |
| 7 | The building — called the Old Manor House — was allegedly the scene of a naked ‘ wedding ceremony ’ and Miss Dale has also been at the centre of a storm surrounding payments of £4,000 made by the Treasury to help fund Chancellor Norman Lamont 's legal expenses to get her out of his London house . |
| 8 | Dozens of youngsters at St George 's RC Primary , Maghull , have sent cards with smiling faces to cheer her up . |
| 9 | He was joking , deliberately using that cool mockery to pay her back . |
| 10 | They diagnosed various tranquillizers to calm her down and recover her equilibrium . |
| 11 | Maybe he figured the only way to get her off his back was to confess . |
| 12 | But her lovelorn millionaire husband , Bill , had spent more than Pounds 50,000 on private detectives to track her down . |
| 13 | She was walking too quickly , stumbling occasionally , past long belts like dressing-gown cords hanging from poles , which plucked at her face as she pushed through , straying over a pile of new dyed wool , brilliant and damp , into a glare of sunlight , stepping back from a mule loaded with carpets , bumping into a wall where blue thread ran along from a spinning wheel , guarded from tangling by small boys who pushed at her and muttered and laughed ; she would have grasped at the thin thread to lead her out . |
| 14 | Someone had laid out knee-high duckboards to cross the snow , and Lucenzo shot out an imperious hand to help her on to the low platform . |
| 15 | It took a fierce effort to get her back on her mental feet . |
| 16 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 17 | He had n't made a deliberate decision to keep her out of his private and professional life . |