Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 2 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 3 | With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will . |
| 4 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 5 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 6 | There was a tight , hard knot in her stomach that seemed to preclude eating , but in a gesture of defiance she helped herself to a platter of seafood . |
| 7 | We extend thanks to Brian Perry , Director of the Library 's Research and Development Department ( R&DD ) for his encouragement and his ‘ after dinner ’ thoughts on the 25th of June , and to Stephanie Kenna , also of the British Library 's R&DD , for the essential guidance and assistance she gave us throughout the pre- and post-seminar stages . |
| 8 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 9 | Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen . |
| 10 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 11 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 12 | Me Mary had a mi metal cow she milked it with a spout , she too |
| 13 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 14 | Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor . |
| 15 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 16 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 17 | For a moment she held him like a baby in her arms . |
| 18 | Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic . |
| 19 | I think it was a mongrel she got it from the animal rescue |
| 20 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 21 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 22 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 23 | According to the publicity men at Playtex she did it without the aid of pumping iron or silicone injections . |
| 24 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 25 | In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband . |
| 26 | In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport . |
| 27 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 28 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 29 | One day she left it on a table in the coffee bar for two minutes while she went to get some sugar . |
| 30 | I remember one day she slapped me across the jaw . |