Example sentences of "[vb pp] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 2 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 3 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 9 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 12 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | The 19-year-old French beauty , who had a million-seller with Joe Le Taxi , has told how strangers have attacked her in the street . |
| 19 | He had rung her in the afternoon and suggested they met . |
| 20 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 21 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 22 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 23 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 24 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 25 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 26 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 27 | She felt as if a hard , heavy fist had thumped her in the stomach . |
| 28 | Presumably another girl from the company , thought Lefevre , although he could not recall having noticed her during the performance . |
| 29 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 30 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |