Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 2 | She also wore large red-frame glasses , although she wore them on top of her head , as if to keep in place the shock of ginger-red red hair which she 'd rubber-banded into a pony tail down most of the length of her back . |
| 3 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 4 | Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean . |
| 5 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 6 | Cos she had them in a plastic bag . |
| 7 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 9 | And if she told them of her world , they , in turn , made her free in theirs . |
| 10 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |
| 11 | Especially not if she puts them by the bed . ’ |
| 12 | When she had gone Scarlet began to peel courgettes , worrying the while whether she was not doing so prematurely : if she left them thus denuded , exposed to the air , they would discolour , while if she immersed them in water , their vitamin C content would dissipate . |
| 13 | She 's trying to sell the place ; she 'd make damn sure that those figures were available if she wanted them to be seen . |
| 14 | He and Stephanie both always won Kim 's game , the objects on a tray , but whereas she remembered them for their quiddity , naming and denoting them in language in her mind , he did it with a geometrical map and total spatial recall . |
| 15 | Even the celibate woman who cleans the altar linens , vestments and vessels , must cover her hands when she handles these sacred things , lest she pollute them by her touch . |
| 16 | Angry Caroline , 26 , told an industrial tribunal that Mr Garber seized the saucy snaps after she left them in the staff room at the Trim N Proper salon in Ickenham , Middlesex . |
| 17 | The bogus officers , who were dressed in full police uniform , tied the sixty year old woman up after she let them into her house in Jerviston Street , New Stevenson around eight o'clock last night . |
| 18 | Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day . |
| 19 | They needed polishing before she subjected them to Alexander Vass 's scrutiny . |
| 20 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
| 21 | Johnson did not drink her proffered dram , but Boswell and the two guides did , and when she asked them for snuff , her great luxury , they had none , but gave her money instead . |
| 22 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
| 23 | Her eyes were cold when she lifted them to Piper 's face . |
| 24 | And they were still chatting comfortably with each other when she rejoined them in the living-room , feeling very much like a spare part . |
| 25 | She could hardly bear to think she would never see this pretty place again , nor speak with the cheerful villagers , drink beer in María 's café and get hugs from the children when she saw them in Miguel 's clinic . |
| 26 | Some people do n't stop when she asks them for money , but most people think for a bit and then dig in their pockets and give her summat . |
| 27 | If only she could understand the excruciating pain her boys are suffering when she treats them like this , and realise that they will carry that pain for the rest of their lives . |
| 28 | But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all . |
| 29 | She was carrying a fresh tray of ice ; the cubes popped when she put them in the drinks . |
| 30 | They were heavy and sparkled when she held them to the light , and she thought they were the most beautiful things she would ever own . |