Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was going eastwards , bound for a place called Hainault she had never heard of |
| 2 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 3 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 4 | Whatever risks she took in her career were calculated ones . |
| 5 | His betrayal of Nicola Hammond ought to have annoyed her — not for Nicola 's sake , but because she was reminded of risks she 'd taken ; of risks she might have to take . |
| 6 | Little Mikey Hatch she thought of , suspended also , dipping his arms into water at the nursery school , and Jennifer Droppy looking sad , and Joseph Wright pushing , and Johnny Pyke laughing , and Tracy Waye being bossy , and Thomas Braine interrupting , and good Andrew Cartboy , and Mandy Goff singing her song . |
| 7 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 8 | She withdrew immediately , retreating into her corner of the bench , her face expressionless but for the suspicious sidelong glance she sent him . |
| 9 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
| 10 | The glance she sent her cousin was slyly mocking . |
| 11 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 12 | Without a word or a glance she ran off , shouting , ‘ Oliver , Oliver , ’ in a high , affected voice . |
| 13 | Without a backward glance she walked slowly towards his table . |
| 14 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 15 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 16 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 17 | The glance she threw Thiercelin carried the strong implication that she preferred the more mature type of man . |
| 18 | It was nowt but nonsense about how she looked , and the songs she sang , and that sort o ’ stuff . |
| 19 | In the early days of The Wedding Present , she would read his lyric book and ask him in which songs she featured . |
| 20 | Lisa Marie has been secretly recording demo tapes of songs she has written . |
| 21 | Cos she cos she likes them songs she loves them . |
| 22 | Suddenly from the instrument she heard his voice . |
| 23 | Thinking she got honours . |
| 24 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 25 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 26 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 27 | One of them , a leather skirt she made for Dannii , still occupies pride of place in her little sister 's wardrobe . |
| 28 | Jo 's lesbianism is also important to the way she dresses ; she does n't want to look what she calls ‘ too femme ’ , and says that when she wears a skirt she gets a lot more hassle from men . |
| 29 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 30 | In connection with Michael Stein she suspected it would not . |