Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 32 | She led him into the sitting room . |
| 33 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 34 | She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate . |
| 35 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 36 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 37 | She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down . |
| 38 | For a moment animosity was swept away by mutual interest and , as she led him towards the recovery cage , she felt a pang of regret that their relationship could not be friendly . |
| 39 | She laid it on the floor of the car . |
| 40 | Tenderly she laid it on the bed . |
| 41 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |
| 42 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 43 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 44 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 45 | Instead of saying so , she pecked him on the cheek . |
| 46 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 47 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 48 | She 'd had no idea what the house looked like , until she was going through that wooden gate when , holding Millie by the hand , she espied it in the distance . |
| 49 | The palms of her hands were sweating , and she wiped them against the legs of her tunic . |
| 50 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
| 51 | She got it in the back of the neck . |
| 52 | but she got it in the greens |
| 53 | I think it was a mongrel she got it from the animal rescue |
| 54 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 55 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 56 | She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall . |
| 57 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 58 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 59 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 60 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |