Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek .
2 Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part .
3 ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard .
4 There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career .
5 She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf .
6 She hated it , and hated him , but she was no longer resisting him , so she accepted it in aching silence , desire overwhelming pride at last .
7 This was attended by the daughters of the best society in Funchal until she closed it in 1892 .
8 She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else .
9 She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye .
10 Her marriage to John Fenwick ( possibly on 8 May 1781 at St Dunstan , Stepney ) , a radical author and translator , proved disastrous and she left him in 1800 ‘ determined … to consider myself and children totally separated from his bad or good fortunes ’ .
11 His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months .
12 Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked .
13 Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance .
14 Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half !
15 And she said it with such pride and such display that Clara did not feel at all obliged to conceal the amazement and delight that she felt , as she might , if confronted with a more worldly modesty , have done : for Clelia 's manner declared , this is singular this is beautiful , this may legitimately amaze , you betray no innocence in admiring this .
16 I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was .
17 It was a sign and she accepted it as such .
18 He was offering her an out and she respected him for that .
19 She shook off the treacherous thought ; Dana was her twin and she loved her with all her faults — goodness knew , she had enough of her own .
20 Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one .
21 The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand .
22 Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare .
23 I held out a hand , and she pinched it with tiny , black-gloved fingers .
24 During my stay in her country we were always together , and she saved me from many dangerous situations .
25 And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl .
26 Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said :
27 ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer .
28 The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too .
29 It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid .
30 On a visit to Mrs Chamberlin she explained that she did not like to leave her aunt and would from then on come only once a week , and she put it about that for the moment , neither she nor her aunt would be at home on Wednesday afternoons .
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