Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not very many sub-conversions have yet been done as I understand it and my source of information about the levels of conversion is solely from Mrs , called on behalf of the defendants and her real source of information is simply one family whom she has talked to on the telephone about it , who find the levels conversion of their Nissan Serena perfectly satisfactory for their twenty year old daughter . |
| 2 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 3 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 4 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 5 | This was the urgent business she 'd spoken of to Silvia . |
| 6 | And she thought for a moment of little Mrs Richards , and the regrets she had lived with for fifty years . |
| 7 | This must go up on the wall ! ’ and stick his latest painting up with Sellotape alongside the daubs by the mentally handicapped group she had played for at Christmas , and the postcards from her friends all over the world . |
| 8 | And what on earth Papa would say of that banal piece of wisdom she could not imagine — and why was Papa , whom she had parted from in a high old anger , so much in her thoughts these days ? |
| 9 | Then she gave a low cry of astonishment , for this was the dark young man she had cannoned into on the parade at St Petrock 's , on that momentous Christmas Eve . |
| 10 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 11 | Not that it ever really came up to her expectations , but this year — spending it at the vicarage with Mark and Sophia and her mother — she had hoped for at least a glimpse of Rupert Stonebird . |
| 12 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 13 | And André was in his element , enjoying the buzzing atmosphere around him the way she had used to at one point in time . |
| 14 | She birdied the tenth , her first , but , after that promising start , the rustiness she had talked of at the start of the tournament began to manifest itself . |
| 15 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 16 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 17 | She had set to with a will , but had been dismayed to discover that her appetite did not match it . |
| 18 | It was an idea she had thought of in a vague way yesterday , when she had seen the extent of the gravel ridge that ran beneath the two estates . |
| 19 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 20 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 21 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 22 | She had come from across the county in Southend . |
| 23 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 24 | She had to walk all the way to Clerkenwell with a canvas bag containing all her belongings , and her feet dragged as she grew more reluctant every minute to face the destitution she thought she had left behind for ever . |
| 25 | But the slivers , so moist , so delicious , had been interleaved with greaseproof paper , and the white tray in which they lay had looked so very like the ones she had looked at with hopeless longing in Marks and Spencer , except that someone had torn off the label . |
| 26 | Yeah even though she 's down on the bottom she 's bound to of come second |
| 27 | Tell your mum she could be kinder to you , she 's got to for |
| 28 | He 'll never forgive her for the life she has spent and she wo n't let him see what she 's come to at the end of it ! |