Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She withdrew immediately , retreating into her corner of the bench , her face expressionless but for the suspicious sidelong glance she sent him . |
| 4 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
| 5 | The glance she sent her cousin was slyly mocking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Without a word or a glance she ran off , shouting , ‘ Oliver , Oliver , ’ in a high , affected voice . |
| 8 | Without a backward glance she walked slowly towards his table . |
| 9 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The glance she threw Thiercelin carried the strong implication that she preferred the more mature type of man . |
| 13 | Suddenly from the instrument she heard his voice . |
| 14 | Thinking she got honours . |
| 15 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 16 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of them , a leather skirt she made for Dannii , still occupies pride of place in her little sister 's wardrobe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 22 | WHEN that grand old man of the turf Jim Joel died last spring at the age of 97 , a condition in his will allowed the Queen Mother to choose any horse she wished from his estate . |
| 23 | When one woman tried to remove barbed wire from the path of a police horse she feared would get hurt , her photograph became the basis for a frenzied attack which ran the headline , ‘ Horse Whipped With Barbed Wire ’ . |
| 24 | This woman who 'd come to complain about an allegedly dangerous horse she 'd sold her was threatened by stable-hands , and Central News was told that Mrs Burt was at a funeral and unavailable for comment . |
| 25 | This is a tribute to my sister , Clare , who lived and breathed horses , and who later died on the horse she loved more than anything . |
| 26 | Cos she did n't draw a horse she won , yeah . |
| 27 | Oh oh good grief she says you do n't need stamp . |
| 28 | Ursula 's concern for Samantha 's safety seemed to eclipse any grief she felt on Maurice 's account . |
| 29 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 30 | Then , giving in to the grief she 'd always kept bottled up , she buried her face against his shoulder and wept like a baby for the mother she had loved and lost . |