Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 3 | She flung it on the counter before Rachaela . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At a personal level , AT2 said that she now found the Head 's attitude much pleasanter when she met him round the school . |
| 6 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
| 7 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 11 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 12 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 13 | She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit . |
| 14 | She seated him before the blaze of the bright fire ; she brought him , unasked , a glass of the Armagnac he preferred . |
| 15 | She plunged it through the Daine Thing , ignoring the clear fluid that squished out of the puncture , and drove it deep . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 18 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 19 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 20 | She led me through the throng . |
| 21 | She led her into the house . |
| 22 | She led her to the gate . |
| 23 | She led them towards the kitchen , certain that Bella would make them welcome and throw another three or four collops of bacon into the pan . |
| 24 | Millie 's new mistress paused as if uncertain what to do next ; then turning quickly about , she led them from the kitchen into the hall and to the open front door again , and looked to where her children were all standing round the pony and cart . |
| 25 | She led him down the side passage and pointed to a shelf . |
| 26 | She led him to the bedroom , and spreadeagled him on the bed before tying his wrists to the iron headrest . |
| 27 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 28 | Taking his hand , she led him to the bed and lay down . |
| 29 | Somewhat to his own surprise , Harry found himself booking a single room , despite the exorbitant tariff , and following the prim receptionist as she led him to the door . |
| 30 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |