Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no .
2 So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough .
3 So she did what an increasing number of British women are now doing — she had cosmetic surgery .
4 The more she praised me the quicker the needles clicked .
5 Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace .
6 When I phoned up she said what a lovely card !
7 There was nowhere to park the car , and that solved any uncertainty about how to handle the parting ; before she slid out she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek like a schoolyard dare , and was gone before there could be any reaction .
8 Here she gave us a happy home for the next twenty years .
9 Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing .
10 Then she gave him a fine-toothed comb that would drag the dead lice and their eggs from his hair after the liquid had done its work .
11 Then she threw him a shrewd look .
12 But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her .
13 She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see .
14 Instead she gave him a tight smile .
15 This was where she bade him a pleasant goodnight , Fabia knew , and she fully intended to do just that .
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