Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] she [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 2 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 3 | His Mum had n't taken him to work with her since last year . |
| 4 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 5 | Soon , soon if she has the courage , it will not matter , mt will be too late for anyone to protest , to come to her with sensible and sound advice . |
| 6 | How sickening of Miss Potts to pounce on her like that . |
| 7 | There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice . |
| 8 | This is especially true of very strong disagreements like Brenda 's father 's disagreement in Extract 8 , with his " no " repeated three times in overlap with Brenda 's talk , and his continuing to talk over her with repeated uses of " not " . |
| 9 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |
| 10 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 11 | How had Keith dared to talk to her like that ? |
| 12 | He had n't dared to dwell on her in those aging arms lest his rage should drive him to deeds he might regret for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 14 | Suddenly , Damian turned his dark head to look at her with narrowed eyes . |
| 15 | The creature turned its head to look at her with slit-pupilled eyes the size of saucers . |
| 16 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 17 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 18 | He must , to look at her like that . |
| 19 | So why , exactly , he now found himself wondering , had he come out to look at her like this ? |
| 20 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 21 | That was the best of my father 's stories , told in the pub in the 1960s , of how difficult it had been to live with her in 1937 , during the Abdication months . |
| 22 | In the event that the children were to return , the issue before the Family Court in Australia would arise upon the mother 's application for leave to remove them permanently from the State of Victoria to bring them back to live with her in this country . |
| 23 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 24 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 25 | In fact , given the bitterness the memory of Cherith still evoked , she wondered why he 'd decided to confide in her at all . |
| 26 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 27 | Nobody had ever dared to speak to her like that before . |