Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] them [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up . |
| 2 | Lying there in his bed , she was suddenly beset by wild , crazy images of lying there in his arms , and , even as she tried to block them out , her body grew warm with the memory of the moment when he 'd kissed her in the make-up room . |
| 3 | — She tried to shut them out but it was as if one memory had set free another : they came clamouring now to torment and bewilder her . |
| 4 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 5 | She 'd snatched them away as if they were in danger , and afterwards burst into Quentin 's study to have her scene . |
| 6 | She 'd shaken them off . |
| 7 | She 'd ignored them long enough , glaring at their dusty little windows on the bottom stair as she came in and left . |
| 8 | She 'd offered them around , but the other nomes found them bitter and unpleasant . |
| 9 | One thing emphasised by every girl here who had delayed telling her parents about her pregnancy was that looking back , each wished she 'd told them earlier , since the consequences were never as bad as she 'd feared . |
| 10 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 11 | Left three children there and took the took eleven year old for a wa , dog for a walk , and nobody knew she 'd left them there , cos she did n't come back until Sunday afternoon at three o'clock ! |
| 12 | When she came to put them back , they were both put back upside down . |
| 13 | They fell on the boards at her feet and she rushed to pick them up . |
| 14 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 15 | Furiously she began gathering them up , two spots of colour highlighting her cheeks as his hands came down over hers . |
| 16 | As she began to tick them off , a manservant rushed up with a magnum of champagne . |
| 17 | Shortly after you came to live in this town she began to sell them very discreetly . |
| 18 | Taking her cup and saucer over to the sink in the small kitchenette , she began to rinse them out under the tap . |
| 19 | She began to pack them together in a pile . |
| 20 | She started to tear them up , slowly , deliberately . |
| 21 | She decided to play them out at the game they had chosen . |
| 22 | She managed to pull them off but as she drove down the street she was followed by a cacophony of tin cans tied to the bumper . |
| 23 | She was wearing a man 's woollen dressing-gown : the sleeves were too long for her and although she kept rolling them up , they fell down again almost immediately , shedding a little , grey storm of cigarette ash . |
| 24 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 25 | Oh , she did miss them so , both Mama and Papa . |
| 26 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 27 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 28 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 29 | Moreover , since Sparta depended on personal service from her allies , she had to consult them constantly , whereas Athens had a freer hand , because she had stopped holding congresses of her allies well before the beginning of the war . |
| 30 | But she could not remember where she had heard them before . |