Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his .
2 She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally .
3 She flung him into the Grand Canal .
4 Turning abruptly , she flung it with a clash into the fireplace ; then she went out and got into the car .
5 She flung it on the counter before Rachaela .
6 A senior detective said : ‘ The married woman said she met him on a plane .
7 ‘ She was a married woman , who said she met him on a plane , ’ a senior detective told TODAY .
8 She met him on a forest track , ran him down and did her best to kill him .
9 Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire .
10 At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school .
11 She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown .
12 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
13 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 .
14 She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village .
15 I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’
16 When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone .
17 ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths .
18 She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes .
19 She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind .
20 Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time .
21 She read it in a magazine .
22 She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit .
23 She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred .
24 When she attacked him with a 12-inch butcher 's knife , he punched her , and that brought that troubled relationship to a troubled end .
25 She propelled her to a low wall and sat her down beside her suitcase .
26 She plunged it through the Daine Thing , ignoring the clear fluid that squished out of the puncture , and drove it deep .
27 ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre .
28 The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint .
29 I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward .
30 She led me into a bed-sitting-room .
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