Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
| 2 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 3 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 4 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 5 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 6 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 7 | She would not say anything , Mrs Blakey decided as she collected around her the ingredients of a steak and kidney stew for everyone 's supper . |
| 8 | The two men , one called Willie and the other called Arthur , were standing with their caps on , and as she walked towards them the man called Mike , the big one , said to her , ‘ Sorry I was rough on you , miss . ’ |
| 9 | Desperately trying to think of something to say , she heard behind her the sound of Ross clearing his throat . |
| 10 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
| 11 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 12 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 13 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 14 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 15 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 16 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 17 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 18 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 19 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |