Example sentences of "[prep] she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 2 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 3 | Leo Vincey is forced by the events of She towards the same decision as the one which destroyed his counterpart Kallikrates . |
| 4 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 5 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 6 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 7 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 8 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 9 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 10 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 11 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 13 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 15 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 16 | ‘ There ai n't no list , lady , ’ he said as he pushed past her with the first of the consignment . |
| 17 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 18 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 19 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 20 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 21 | The photograph of her with the older woman was well done , though . |
| 22 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 23 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 24 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 25 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 26 | Nothing lay ahead of her except the thickening belts of trees that ringed the head of the valley . |
| 27 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 28 | Fat chance , she thought dismally , the prospect of two days and three nights without seeing him yawning ahead of her like the Grand Canyon . |
| 29 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 30 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |