Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone suggested he 'd caught her out in some minor misdemeanour , Loretta thought angrily — putting penny coins in a parking meter , or dodging fares on the underground . |
| 2 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 3 | It was difficult to tell , of course , whether she had always possessed an unattractive , aggressive , sullen personality , or whether rejection by her uncle in favour of Angela Morgan had tipped her over into this behaviour . |
| 4 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 5 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Turkish police have tracked her down to this resort . |
| 7 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 8 | I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years |
| 9 | It was as if he had opened her up in some way . |
| 10 | She could n't understand why the woman 's husband had brought her on to this hazardous planet . |
| 11 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 12 | All the excitement that had buoyed her up over these last years drained out of her . |
| 13 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 14 | Thérèse had stroked her back with one hand and spoken lovingly . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've put her up to this . |
| 16 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 17 | In manic periods , which seemed the most common , she was grossly overactive and reckless in behaviour , rarely slept , talked incessantly , and showed typical grandiosity in her claims that Christ had singled her out for special revelations . |