Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] her [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |
| 2 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 3 | Uncertain of the kind of climate which awaited her , she 'd consulted her hastily purchased travel guide , to be informed that Copenhagen was on the same latitude as Newcastle-on-Tyne in England and shared similar weather patterns . |
| 4 | Mary Rose could n't believe she 'd heard her properly . |
| 5 | As she had said to Julie when she 'd phoned her yesterday , even when returning to the office from a short holiday , in the fast-moving world of the City of London you could never be entirely sure that your desk would still be there ! |
| 6 | That she 'd lost her normally very healthy appetite , reduced to picking desultorily at meals where once she would have tucked in hungrily ? |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't tell you before , because I did n't want you thinking it was n't convenient to come and stay or something , darling ! ’ she 'd told her apologetically over coffee after lunch . |
| 8 | Artemis frowned , trying to remember where she had seen her before , and then she remembered . |
| 9 | If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family . |
| 10 | Just before the end of term she had strained her back at college . |
| 11 | For the first time in years Harriet was overwhelmed by a wave of homesickness , and not now for New York , but for the haven of her London flat , the bolt-hole she had made her very own . |
| 12 | She had kicked her very hard and Margaret was smaller than her . |
| 13 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
| 14 | And now she had pierced her again in this sore spot . |
| 15 | She had offered her immaculately powdered cheek to each man and had received a kiss from everyone . |
| 16 | Queen Victoria , whom she made perpetual coarse jokes about in a way that struck people as uncalled for , had put her off marriage in the same way that she had put her off Scotland . |
| 17 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 18 | The last one had caused her to slip and she had jarred her already sore wrist by flinging out a hand to save herself . |
| 19 | They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’ |
| 20 | It 's dark , but I know it 's Marie cos she 's got her jangly boots on and I can hear them . |