Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked Suzannah what prompted her to go up to town tonight . |
| 32 | She pulled her loom out from the corner and put a stool in front of it . |
| 33 | She pulled her dress up over her face and looked at the sun as it washed into the cotton . |
| 34 | She pulled her boot back on . |
| 35 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 36 | She gasped and pulled her covers up around her chin . |
| 37 | I needed her cheered up in the office . |
| 38 | He stood and watched her walk back to the house and then he went back to his work . |
| 39 | I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl . |
| 40 | I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery . |
| 41 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 42 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 43 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 44 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 45 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 46 | His anger reached out with a deadly force that made her flinch back from him . |
| 47 | She said go now to the electrical desk and you can pay for them when no I do n't want to do that and I made her come out with me and see I picked up those teddies in the bags and I went back in and put them by the electrical desk |
| 48 | This was absolutely vital if I was ever to ‘ fly ’ her , because it would be the lure of food on my fist that made her come back to me . |
| 49 | Tsu Ma laughed ; a soft , generous laughter that made her look up at him again and meet his eyes . |
| 50 | Something in his voice made her look up at him . |
| 51 | The uninhibited joining of their bodies was more glorious than anything she had imagined , and the culminating spasm which rocked and arched her body made her cry out with exquisite agony . |
| 52 | The bitter statement made her cry out in protest . |
| 53 | Damian 's voice rose in fury as he strode to them , reached them and pushed Tony away from Rachel with a violence that made her cry out in horror as Tony stumbled backwards . |
| 54 | Somewhat forbidding socially because of shyness , Dorothea had an absolute integrity which made her stand up for what she believed should be done . |
| 55 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 56 | I met her walking up by the castle , great big straw hat , floating veils , general appearance of a female Friar Tuck out for a constitutional . ’ |
| 57 | I met her sitting out on the bench where Michael Willis always sat , water-gazing . |
| 58 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 59 | I asked her to move out at once . |
| 60 | The Prince , who had important paperwork to attend to at Buckingham Palace , asked her to drive back with him the following day . |