Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 2 | She caught it in time , and had them dwindle a little . |
| 3 | She tried it in English , then returned to her story . |
| 4 | She found him in Reception talking on the telephone . |
| 5 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 6 | Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day . |
| 7 | She had worked strips of gold braid into the weave , and now she secured them in place . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't panic again , ’ he grinned , flattening her lower arm back on the deck at right angles to her elbow , catching her other arm as she lifted it in protest , and pushing it flat on her other side . |
| 9 | ‘ Then it will fade , ’ she told him in triumph . |
| 10 | ‘ If that 's my cue you 're giving me dear , ’ she told him in rehearsal , ‘ you 'll really have to speak much louder . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You must be very rich if your skill is as remarkable as your tongue , ’ she told him in amusement , taking a handkerchief from her lacy sleeve to dab at a tiny droplet of champagne on her dress . |
| 12 | She told him in fact that Dinah had gone away for a day or two , but shortly a letter came . |
| 13 | As she watched him in silence he slid open one of his desk drawers and lifted out a sheaf of papers . |
| 14 | She watched them in hall , from her place among Elizabeth 's ladies , and they were two bright lanterns burning with sparks of laughter and joy and prodigal kindness , for pure pleasure of being together after an absence . |
| 15 | She fluffed it in rehearsal , but pulled it off for the cameras . |
| 16 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
| 17 | She put her in mind of a favourite painting her father had possessed , a portrait of Mary Zambaco by Burne-Jones , and which had hung in the hall of the family home in Hendon . |
| 18 | She put me in prison . |
| 19 | But , my lords , she put me in prison for twenty years ! |
| 20 | ‘ The social worker at the hospital — she was marvellous — she put us in touch with a charity that keeps a list of all these types of Homes and she sent us a list and this one was more or less on our doorstep . |
| 21 | She spilt the coffee as she put it in front of him , apologised , and gave the table a cursory wipe . |
| 22 | When sister Lou finally tied the knot , she did it in style ; the full church wedding . |
| 23 | Lizzy wanted to try everything and she did it in style . |
| 24 | is that Middlemarch at the beginning , she did it in class |
| 25 | And she had him in turmoil ! |
| 26 | My daughter also did n't know about it till she had it in school . |
| 27 | She left him in front of a café and as she drove away to follow the complex instructions back to the raccordo she saw him in her mirror , standing with his hand still raised in the sort of military salute with which he 'd taken his leave of her . |
| 28 | He told me all that she had to say when she left it in trust for me . |
| 29 | Nyeht ! ’ she endorsed it in French and Russian as well . |
| 30 | When she had gone Scarlet began to peel courgettes , worrying the while whether she was not doing so prematurely : if she left them thus denuded , exposed to the air , they would discolour , while if she immersed them in water , their vitamin C content would dissipate . |