Example sentences of "[vb pp] on she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 2 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
| 3 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 4 | And his ecstasy had soon become her ecstasy , an electrochemical fuel that had ignited in her , burning away all the taint of that earlier false frenzy enforced on her by the Harlequin man . |
| 5 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 6 | It was as though all that had happened to her in the past year was suddenly before her , and all her own shortcomings into the bargain had landed on her in a heap , and were destroying her . |
| 7 | Mr Butner — who developed a friendly , working relationship with Diana — eventually called on her at the palace . |
| 8 | In fact , she did not realise she was to have the honour conferred on her for a few days after the letter arrived . |
| 9 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 10 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 11 | Not only were her savings gone , but so was Aunt Jane 's legacy and the money Mike had pressed on her as an early wedding present … |
| 12 | The fact that Anne now relied on her to the extent of being somewhat lost without her , gave Joan a curious but none the less pleasurable sense of power . |
| 13 | I wondered if , in view of the physical demands being placed on her by a tour on such a large scale , it was necessary to ‘ work out ’ . |
| 14 | David 's eyes were fixed on her with an intensity she had n't seen before . |
| 15 | A black depression descended on her at the thought . |
| 16 | His hands tightened on her for an instant , and then he let her go . |
| 17 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 18 | The brevity forced on her by a pay telephone might possibly be quite useful . |
| 19 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 20 | A head collar was eventually put on her in the chute , and when she threw her head up in anxiety a roustabout hit her on the face with a lump of wood ‘ for being so stupid ! ’ |
| 21 | Slowly he pressured her backwards , tipping her on to the cushioning softness of the bed , moving over her so that the imprint of his body burned on her like a brand . |