Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis was a professional , and although she might not agree with his methods she had to face the fact that he would quickly sense something was wrong unless she was very careful . |
| 2 | In two steps she had reached the slop bucket , dropped the packet in , watched it splash on the cobbles and turned round as a voice rang out in the yard . |
| 3 | no she said I 'm alright now I 've had a sandwich , so , anyhow she left it , so I left it , I said well it 's there if you want , she said I 'll eat it later then granddad , anyhow making the tea she said put the microwave on and we , we were having salmon |
| 4 | In the font she had found the head of the priest . ’ |
| 5 | Eventually , forced out by the need to buy basic necessities she had met the pusher in the toilets in one of the big stores . |
| 6 | Marriage to an Englishman brought Sandra to Britain and within 6 months she 'd won the Sunday Times best Watercolour competition . |
| 7 | And in the same repetitious way she had recalled the scene she 'd interrupted the evening before by announcing that supper was ready : Gordon and the boy seated in the sitting-room before the cosy glow of the electric fire , drinking sherry . |
| 8 | Standing beside the rails at the junction at Pot'ma she had held the baby of an exhausted mother , and she had smiled at him . |
| 9 | In view of the help she had rendered the group , Gedge also wrote to Sara Catt , Charman 's girlfriend , informing her of the situation too . |
| 10 | As a youngster she had detested the Popeye cartoons on television . |
| 11 | It would take all the poise she possessed to spend the evening with Fen , on their new footing as ‘ friends ’ , without revealing her true feelings for him . |
| 12 | Thus it was that on 3 January she decided to mark the occasion by letting go of another gasket , this time in one of her auxiliary purification circuits . |
| 13 | The first sermon she preached reiterated the message . |
| 14 | But inside the old building she had found the staff reassuringly up to date , and smilingly efficient . |
| 15 | She went over to it , her mouth dry , her pulses racing , and when she looked down at the cherubic child with bright golden hair she had to grip the arms for support . |
| 16 | I 've experienced them , ’ — remembering , with a shudder , a crappy little agency in Clapham where there had lurked a loud gritty third-rate Scottish horror she 'd had the misfortune to run across in her Algox days . |
| 17 | With trembling fingers she began to unfasten the bolts . |
| 18 | In that fleeting instant she had seen the soldier of her dreams . |
| 19 | Because in that instant she had fired the ship 's rear guns and had blasted the other ship 's nose section into particles . |
| 20 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 21 | She had been much comforted by Craig 's presence in the house these past weeks , but in her heart she had known the situation was an explosive one and could n't last . |
| 22 | For a few precious hours she had savoured the sensation , and had determinedly closed her mind to the thought that only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort in her present condition . |
| 23 | At lunch-time in the kitchen she tried to cover the silence up by chattering about anything that came into her head , but her chattering made the silence more obvious . |
| 24 | And er but of course she did lose the baby . |
| 25 | When Nellie 's Mum was very large and the baby was due she would n't let Nellie go far in case she needed to fetch the midwife . |
| 26 | Elisabeth recalled the times she had seen the midwife arrive at a peasant 's cottage . … |
| 27 | The complex included squash courts , an indoor swimming-pool and a gym , and Rachel , who had always loved swimming , took advantage of every opportunity she had to visit the complex . |
| 28 | With immense reluctance she began typing the copy . |
| 29 | Since being in Carstairs she had seen the baby twice and the visits had gone well and social workers hoped to continue this . |
| 30 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |