Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 2 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 3 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 4 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 5 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 6 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 7 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 8 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 9 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 10 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 11 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
| 12 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 13 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 14 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 15 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 16 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 17 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 18 | Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was the temporary lodger whom the police arrested when , many months after the burglary , the original owner of the valuables thought that she recognized her from the description given by the shop owner of the person from whom she had bought the jewellery . |
| 19 | Might it have happened that she met a horse drawn set on its way to day , and that she squeezed herself against the tunnel wall in a vain attempt to let it by without harm to herself ? |
| 20 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 21 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 22 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 23 | What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being . |
| 24 | Nor was the conversation doing anything other than drag down her spirits , so she brought it to a close by saying , ‘ I must go back to the office . |
| 25 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 26 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 27 | The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ . |
| 28 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 29 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 30 | He was being kind , she could tell , and not probing further , so she rewarded him with a rather watery smile , and said sententiously , ‘ There 's always a first time for everything . ’ |