Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it 's open seven days a week , the restaurant claims much of Sally 's time , but whenever she has a chance , she goes riding with her daughters , Jemma-Jane , now ten , and Abigail , 12 , around the leafy Cotswold lanes . |
| 2 | Friends of Mia , 47 , say director Woody owes her £195,000 after she agreed to appear in his movie A Manhattan Murder Mystery . |
| 3 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 4 | The idea of pursuing a solo career had been in Sharon Shannon 's mind for a long while — but now the time was right she already had a seminal piece of super session recording under her belt and now , with John Dunford — who 'd been centrally involved with The Waterboys throughout their Irish sojourn as sound and recording engineer — in charge of production , she got to work on her solo album . |
| 5 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 6 | She became noted for her work on the Fringe and is now at the RSC with a fine version of A Woman Killed with Kindness . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank goodness for that ! ’ she exclaimed settling into her seat . |
| 8 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ She 's attractive and if she wants to talk about my Land Rover and muddy boots , why not ? |
| 10 | She remained bent towards the portrait of the dead mandarin for several seconds to show the spirits how deeply repentant she was , and when she rose to return to her place she kept her head bowed so that her dark hair fell across her face and hid the tears of remorse in her eyes . |
| 11 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
| 12 | She tried to recede into her seat , to keep out of it . |
| 13 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 14 | She tried tugging at his arm , but this time he did n't release her even slightly . |
| 15 | When she heard Jacques Devraux join her husband for a final drink at the table in the canter of the clearing , she tried to listen to their conversation . |
| 16 | She tried to pray for her father at the same time , but Madeleine danced across her invocation , Madeleine provocative in yellow piqué and high-heeled sandals disrupted her holy words . |
| 17 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 18 | Colour flooded her face as she tried to struggle to her feet , desperate to evade the hand that was stretched towards her . |
| 19 | She tried to struggle to her feet , pulling at her skirt that was half under Fernando . |
| 20 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 21 | However hard she tried to climb into his mind and find out what was going on in there , she never seemed to get beyond that barrier which he had laid down . |
| 22 | She tried to break from his grasp , but as she spoke he released the arm still pinned at her side and placed his hand on the curve of her neck , fondling it in a way that reminded her of an actor she 'd once seen playing Henry VIII just before a beheading scene . |
| 23 | Robbed of speech , she tried to protest with her huge , bewildered eyes . |
| 24 | She tried sitting with her thighs apart in an effort to provide more of a lap , but was not surprised when Harry 's face began to pucker and he started to cry . |
| 25 | She tried to think of her name , but it would n't come to her . |
| 26 | He reached across the table and took her hand , which was a nuisance ; he would notice if she tried to look at her watch . |
| 27 | She tried to look at his features . |
| 28 | However hard she tried to concentrate on her driving , his nearness was distracting . |
| 29 | She tried to smile at her mother , — genuinely sorry to have vexed her . |
| 30 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |