Example sentences of "she [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 2 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
| 3 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |
| 4 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 5 | Better have a word with her about the domestic arrangements . |
| 6 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 7 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 8 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 9 | When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times . |
| 10 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |
| 11 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 12 | He took Laura by the arm and guided her through the revolving doors . |
| 13 | These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world . |
| 14 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 15 | I took Montaine by the hand and led her through the empty rooms … there were very many . |
| 16 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 17 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 18 | He felt a sudden desperate need to see Alice — to tell her of the momentous happenings of the day and ask her advice . |
| 19 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 20 | If you feel that your child may be mixing with youngsters who sniff glue , you could talk to your child and warn him or her of the possible risks and dangers involved . |
| 21 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 22 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 23 | When Laura complained at breaktime that Peter had done the same again , pushing her towards the broken tiles which had recently been blown off the junior hall roof , Janice felt that Peter needed to be shown that what he had done was dangerous and unacceptable . |
| 24 | Hari felt him take her arm and lead her beneath the overhanging trees . |
| 25 | His deepest sympathies sided with her against the plum-mouthed bureaucrats of the Cabinet Office . |
| 26 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 27 | Anything to divert his attention , to prevent him from labelling her with the cruel names she 'd last heard on Marcus 's tongue . |
| 28 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 29 | He lifted a strong hand , signalled brusquely for the Mercedes to pick them up , and pushed her into the rear seats , sliding in next to her . |
| 30 | When the fish are placed in the breeding tank courtship will normally start within minutes , the male displaying to the female and driving her into the floating mops . |