Example sentences of "who [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys .
2 DOG SAVES WOMAN : Alsatian saved 27-year-old woman ower by biting man who attacked her with a knife .
3 A TEENAGE horsewoman fought off a man who attacked her on Wimbledon Common yesterday almost a year after young mother Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death in the same area .
4 Harry Herbert , the son of the Queen 's racing manager , the Earl of Carnarvon , James Boughey , a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards , farmer 's son George Plumptre , who asked her to the ballet the day she got engaged , the artist Marcus May and Rory Scott , then a dashing lieutenant in the Royal Scots Guards , often came to call , along with Simon Berry , Adam Russell , and James Colthurst .
5 Auntie Lou had friends in the town who asked her to tea sometimes but she never dared ask them back .
6 A young mother says she 's living in fear for her life after a threatening phone call from the man who kidnapped her at gunpoint .
7 She eventually located an Immigration officer who led her through several corridors until they reached a locked red-painted door at the back of the airport building .
8 The doomed one was fragile and childlike between the tall stoic guards who led her to her fate .
9 Other interviewers who met her on set have tried to solve the riddle of her success .
10 Though no one can decide who to compare her with , everyone is at least agreed that Delia Marr has tremendous talent .
11 Chief gusher was American author , Camille Paglia , who described her as ‘ one of the most complex personalities of the 20th century . ’
12 The performance of Lucy Alcorn ( Mrs Montgomery ) was also noted by Mr Poynor who described her as a ‘ natural , easy actress . ’
13 Of course , there also appear to have been a good number of people who regarded her as an eccentric or a ‘ mope ’ .
14 Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby .
15 According to the Rev. William Forster , who visited her in jail , she had prayed that the weather on the day of her execution should be fine .
16 Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles .
17 PAMELA : Who has she with her ?
18 Miss T. was then examined by the obstetrics registrar who found her to be in a distressed condition with respiratory pain and contractions .
19 St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time .
20 But his looks were only a part of it ; it was the man himself who drew her like a magnet , his mind , his character , his spirit , whatever made him him .
21 Ann Langford having made her very successful parachute jump which has produced a handsome sum to be shared between Dr. Barnardo 's and the Society wishes to thank all those people who sponsored her in this even .
22 There , she is befriended by Stoney , a sexy rock ‘ n ’ roller who rescues her from a world of LSD that she has dropped into .
23 Lisa was apparently introduced to James Gilbey by her agent 's assistant , Catrina Skepper who invited her to a weekend party in North Yorkshire .
24 She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people .
25 Without a word , Lucenzo offered her a jug of coffee and flicked a quick finger at the alert barman , who provided her with a fresh cup .
26 She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see .
27 Ran away with the blacksmith who beat her with his bellows if his dinner was n't ready on time , and now she lies buried underneath the spreading chestnut tree .
28 She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger .
29 But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal .
30 In feeling , though not in detail , this stands closer perhaps to another figure known in many copies through which a really great original seems to shine : ‘ Amelung 's goddess ’ ( fig. 81 ) , after the scholar who reconstructed her from copies of the head ( known by a quaint tradition as ‘ Aspasia ’ ) and of the body , one with a Roman portrait-head .
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