Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 2 | She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon , which she had somehow got hold of . |
| 3 | The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk . |
| 4 | He took her , or began to , in the direct , unsentimental manner in which she had always understood men took their whores , hurting her slightly not from any particular roughness on his part but because her body had turned dry with protest , resisting him as her supple mind did not . |
| 5 | She is observing the Coroner now with that same surreptitious brooding care with which she had once watched Millie and me from her kitchen window , as we stood talking , or not talking , at the gate . |
| 6 | Details of yesterday 's court order were not made public , but it has been reported that Miss Bonham-Carter has provided the court with a map with a red line marking an area of several hundred yards around her house which she did not want Mr Farquharson to enter . |
| 7 | One girl told me she had even thought family planning clinics were where a woman went with her husband and children to plan their future together . |
| 8 | She told me she did n't eat lunch any more as it had become a bourgeois meal , but I could call in for a cup of de-caff and con her into whatever it was I wanted . |
| 9 | But the big success of the evening was Freda 's — she ended up by getting engaged to a Flying Officer navigator whom she had never set eyes on until that night . |
| 10 | But underneath there was another reason , one she did n't dare look at too closely . |
| 11 | Normally lies and deceit were anathema to her , and she was angry and rueful that since meeting him she had twice allowed circumstances to trap her into using them . |
| 12 | Too kind , it seems , even to tell us she did not like chocolate . ’ |
| 13 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |