Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 3 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 4 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 5 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 6 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 7 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 8 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 9 | In her present fragile state , an inquisition , no matter how well-intentioned , would have shattered her into a million pieces . |
| 10 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 11 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 12 | She 'd thrown herself at him , and then when she 'd panicked he 'd dropped her like a hot potato … what a fool she 'd been ! |
| 13 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 14 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 15 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 16 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 17 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 18 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 19 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 20 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 21 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 22 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 23 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 24 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 25 | She looked at Molly as though she had just sentenced her to a lengthy and quite undeserved term of imprisonment . |
| 26 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 28 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
| 29 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 30 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |