Example sentences of "she [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mood as she made Greg at home veered between hostessy ( and frankly womanly ) pleasure at seeing him , and a desire to convey a sense of fragility and grief , which pretty clearly she did not feel . |
| 2 | She stabbed Ben to death with a pair of dress-making scissors and then tried to kill herself . |
| 3 | ‘ Ask Seb how you learn to shoot , will you ? ’ she asked Gloria at home , Sylvester having cancelled Brigadier Gatehouse . |
| 4 | Outside , she found Edward in conversation with Peter Sidey , the leader of the preservationist element in the village . |
| 5 | She woke Lucy with coffee , and more loving , sure and slow . |
| 6 | It was in September that she joined Lyles as Production Accountant . |
| 7 | Then she telephoned Eliot at home and after that was about to leave when Shildon came , apologetic and saying he had met somebody who had delayed him . |
| 8 | To when she collected Colm from school ? |
| 9 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 10 | She packed Stella off home in a taxi , though not before interrogating her as to what she was doing with a six-inch wooden crucifix wedged down her ankle sock . |
| 11 | She was so eager to send the letter at once that she called Liddy to post it . |
| 12 | That evening , she rang Bridget at home , and explained what she was up to . |
| 13 | She reminded Melissa of champagne , full of fizz and sparkle , and thought that her son had inherited neither her looks nor her personality . |
| 14 | Then she put Miguelito in jail . |
| 15 | That night , as often when she put Josh to bed , Clare held the most precious thing in her world close to her heart and felt guilty and ashamed that she was n't providing him with the things she thought she should . |
| 16 | But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , she greeted Corbett with pleasure . |
| 18 | Leaning back in her chair , she eyed Ellie with amusement . |
| 19 | Miss Potts came out of the room at this moment , she eyed Gwendoline with dislike . |
| 20 | The room reverberated with the fat woman 's cry of ‘ Rain ! ’ as she abandoned Riley in favour of a friendlier face . |
| 21 | She held Xanthe at arm 's length , to look at her , and revolved her , almost prancing to distract attention from herself , and exclaimed , ‘ Everyone must say this , but you look amazing . ’ |
| 22 | She instructed Nina to radio for the county ambulance before climbing the stairs to the first floor of the jig and following the foreman along the boards for about twenty yards until they were able to see the injured man . |
| 23 | Oliver asked Cobalt whether Barbara Coleman had not told him she suspected Joseph of murder . |