Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 2 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 3 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 4 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 5 | Teenagers like Kelly say the tough fines have trapped her into a life of prostitution . |
| 6 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 7 | They had shopped round Belfast and she had teased her with the idea that this Parr was very rich , they had gone by train to Dublin and she had claimed he was ‘ hand in glove ’ with government circles there . |
| 8 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 9 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 10 | After visiting Queen 's the man took her for a walk near Twickenham Bridge where he attacked her . |
| 11 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 12 | I 'd never considered her as a wife . " |
| 13 | Her disenchantment with the Foreign Office , already evident over Rhodesia and the EEC , came to a head during the Falklands War and she brought in Sir Anthony Parsons ( who had impressed her during the war when he was ambassador to the United Nations ) to advise on foreign affairs and appointed Roger Jackling to advise on defence . |
| 14 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 15 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 16 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |
| 17 | He was some stray who had reminded her of the Scarabae agent . |
| 18 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 19 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 20 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 21 | She got an answer soon enough — the city 's mayor confined her to a lunatic asylum . |
| 22 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 23 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 24 | Between them , Candy and Adam had hounded her into a corner ; she felt beleaguered , under attack from all sides . |
| 25 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 26 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 27 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 28 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 29 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 30 | But Mrs Noel 's let her into the house you see , normally she does n't let the mother 's come in if she 's trying to help a child with difficulties |