Example sentences of "[verb] she [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found her walking along a path through the fields . |
| 2 | I helped her keep up the house . |
| 3 | In a great gesture of trust , Josie let her switch off the lights unsupervised . |
| 4 | It is the only course in the United Kingdom which will qualify her to set up a dance and fitness college in the province — a business , she believes , which will afford her children security for the future while fulfilling their mother 's lifelong ambition . |
| 5 | The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours . |
| 6 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 7 | She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 9 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 10 | Just to show her who 's boss , I compel her to let out a shriek . |
| 11 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 12 | As her body confirmed what he 'd already guessed she had neither the will nor wit to attempt to deny it any more . |
| 13 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 14 | I could see her checking out every point on the landscape , sussing the locality . |
| 15 | Daphne had indeed introduced her to Guy , only a few weeks before , when Daphne had persuaded her to make up a party to see La Boheme at Covent Garden . |
| 16 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 17 | ‘ You know she carried on the business alone when her father died , got guts has that girl . ’ |
| 18 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 19 | This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie . |
| 20 | ‘ I heard she got quite a reaction , did n't she ? ’ he wheezes and chuckles slyly , disingenuously , before getting serious . |
| 21 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 22 | Rout out Annunziata , would you , Comfort , and get her to bring up a tray of breakfast . |
| 23 | Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition . |
| 24 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 25 | Tweed , who had refused to let her take over the wheel , appeared outwardly to be perfectly relaxed as he stopped and presented the passport in the name of William Sanders . |
| 26 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 27 | The rope supporting her passed over a beam , slippery with sweat and condensation , and was secured , taut as a cable , through an iron ring in the floor . |
| 28 | They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed . |
| 29 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 30 | I suppose she comes here every night with her bags and things cos she ai n't got a telly at home . |