Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She empowered him to get the tank , the section of drainpipe , the guttering . |
| 2 | She expected him to take the opportunity to cross-question her about the murder . |
| 3 | She said nothing , but hungrily returned to the carrion to take what more she could , as if she expected him to take the rest from her . |
| 4 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 5 | It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom . |
| 6 | She made me sign the paper . ’ |
| 7 | At 27 she succeeded in her dream ; her book tells us her story and how she made her dream a reality . |
| 8 | She made you look a bit of a fool in front of anyone else who was watching . |
| 9 | When she realised he had no intention of following her , she paused and jerked round her head , staring at him with those glittering blue eyes . |
| 10 | By late afternoon she realised he had no intention of returning to the office while she was in it , and she had a strong suspicion that he did not trust her . |
| 11 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 12 | ‘ Interesting , ’ she said , when she realised he expected a comment . |
| 13 | In the castle , while baby Alan grew out of his six-week colic , there was an added sharpness to Marion Aluinn 's tongue , for she realised she had a more serious rival than any lass ; Lachlan 's rediscovered love of fighting . |
| 14 | As she climbed into the driver 's seat of her own car , she realised she had no plan in mind , no destination . |
| 15 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 16 | Because transplanted quail cells will behave normally in chick embryos , she realized she had an invaluable natural marker . |
| 17 | She asked them to donate a collection of drawings , watercolours and sketches as well as etchings , lino prints and engravings on metal . |
| 18 | She asked him to hold the screen just where it was and she went round the back of it , out of his sight . |
| 19 | At twelve she asked her to fetch a salad from the local wholefood bar . |
| 20 | At all events , when I mentioned it to Heather , she asked me to repeat the name of the restaurant . |
| 21 | When I had finished she asked me to place a banknote in front of her and say ‘ lesedi ’ which means ‘ illumination ’ . |
| 22 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 23 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 24 | She asked us to take a seat until called and while Kenneth readied the contents of his briefcase , I studied fellow patients , fabricating their life stories . |
| 25 | She helped them to organise a process of gathering information by drawing up a list of possible sources , and setting them writing letters . |
| 26 | She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered . |
| 27 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 28 | I pressed Vimla to show me her dancing and eventually , after first consulting with Chaman , she invited me to join the household on their rounds , or ‘ going on tolly ’ as they call it . |
| 29 | Our friendship developed and she invited me to write a Fount book . |
| 30 | She pretended she had no idea what he meant . |