Example sentences of "of she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I can remember , when I was a child , watching with amazement as my book-loving grandmother burned a copy of She on the sitting-room fire . ) |
| 2 | The status of SHE within the inquiry had also steadily risen . |
| 3 | For once he pushed the vision of her to the back of his mind , his thoughts focusing instead on the events of that night . |
| 4 | Her cousin always coaxed a lighter side of her to the surface . |
| 5 | He went ahead of her to the concert hall , bought the tickets , and stood waiting for her in the foyer . |
| 6 | Frank , going ahead of her to the boat , turns for her . |
| 7 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 8 | Since nothing seemed to be required of her for the present , Robbie thought , it would do no harm to lean back , just for a moment , and allow her heavy eyelids to have their own way . |
| 9 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 10 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 11 | Frightening , really , when you think of her on the goggle-box , laying down the law . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know you were such a strong swimmer , ’ he huffed , trapping her at the side of the pool with his arms each side of her on the bar . |
| 13 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 14 | ‘ You must think of her on the toilet , ’ Aline said , and giggled . |
| 15 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 16 | It was the same question he had asked of her on the Ridgery , a question that put the burden of leadership on her . |
| 17 | Stephen walked ahead of her on the river bank . |
| 18 | Dr Neil , coming into the parlour where McAllister was permitted to knit and sew , caught his breath at the sight of her with the doll . |
| 19 | Yet she 'd walked right into this marvelous chance , with no mother who would get jealous of her with the baby , only this bunch of doctors to deal with . |
| 20 | As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table . |
| 21 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 22 | ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’ |
| 23 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 24 | There is a lovely photo of her of the back of her C D's . |
| 25 | But he was striding ahead of her into the kitchen . |
| 26 | She sat very still , staring ahead of her into the gathering darkness . |
| 27 | From that very first meeting Rune had projected his own image of her over the reality . |
| 28 | Sabine stared ahead of her through the windscreen . |
| 29 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |
| 30 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |