Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hugged the Rodney to her breast , fearful lest they take it away from her . |
| 2 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 3 | She read the Donaldson story . |
| 4 | She emptied the Lucozade , Pepsi and Sprite down the drain . |
| 5 | In September 1991 , Bernhard flew his small aircraft along , and videoed , the exact route and at the same altitude that W1048 had flown when she attacked the Tirpitz in 1942 . |
| 6 | She led the YORKSHIRE branch of the Medau Society when it was formed in 1956 and became a key figure in the area . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'm a sales girl , now , ’ Melanie thought the day she sold the Noah 's Ark . |
| 8 | Cautiously she posted the Alice in at the beacon . |
| 9 | She unlocked the Chubb . |
| 10 | And Ximena 's heart failed her , and she asked the Cid if peradventure God would deliver him from these enemies . |
| 11 | I began to talk to her , and she asked the Lady Prioress if I could become her companion . ’ |
| 12 | As she passed the Haynes ' cottage , it seemed something was amiss there , too . |
| 13 | In September 1882 she visited the Tynemouth exhibition . |
| 14 | She visited the United States a second time in 1902 , as a founding member , with Susan B. Anthony , of the International Council of Women . |
| 15 | She visited the London HQ of family planning charity Marie Stopes International in a Vauxhall Senator — built in Germany ! |
| 16 | She Caught The Katy meanders along while Messin' With The Kid and Texas Flood are too bluesy and should have been left off the tape . |
| 17 | She was rested until October , when she beat the Derby winner Slip Anchor by three lengths in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket , showing brilliant acceleration to pull clear of a top-class field which also included Commanche Run and Helen Street . |
| 18 | She tried the Moebius Strip , but all she got was an answering routine . |
| 19 | Later in 1873 she moved the Victoria Press to 117 Praed Street , where it remained until April 1881 , when its ownership was transferred to the Queen Printing and Publishing Company . |
| 20 | She described the Maastricht Treaty as striking the " necessary balance " between the conflicting interests of the 12 EC members . |
| 21 | She described the UK as " at the heart of a growing movement towards greater cohesion within Europe " , adding that it was " Britain 's prime concern to ensure that … it works in growing harmony with the United States " . |
| 22 | She described the Hollywood of the late 1940s as ‘ an overcrowded brothel ’ but was no stranger to the casting couch herself . |
| 23 | On entering the church , she found the Reverend Hereward Marr , Rector of this parish , face downwards in the pit dug just inside the door of the south porch . |
| 24 | As she approached the Princes Risborough turn-off , and the section of the road which cuts through high chalk cliffs , she changed the tape for a glorious version of Tosca . |
| 25 | ‘ The Paris sewers , ’ Nigel muttered inaudibly as she cracked the Stilton dish over his head . |
| 26 | She was halfway round and beginning to fret when she entered the Fragonard Room and was briefly transported to a French salon of the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | so she changed the Susan to , to Theresa and made it pits instead |
| 28 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
| 29 | In line with this principle , she ignored the Gorbachev visit and went to the cinema to watch a film that had been banned for 20 years , since it deals with the Russian invasion of 1945 . |
| 30 | She twisted the John Wainfleet page round so they could look at it together . |