Example sentences of "she [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat in the opposite chair while Lucy put a record on ; she flung one leg across the other knee , rolled a cigarette and contained the volcano surging from her clitoris to tight silent lips . |
| 2 | Early in 1956 , at a Cambridge party to launch a student magazine , St Botolph 's , she met one of the contributors , the poet ( later poet laureate ) Ted Hughes , a recent graduate . |
| 3 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 4 | She sold one or two bobble hats , then moved one hundred and fifty miles away . |
| 5 | Either what woman having ten pieces of silver , if she lose one piece , doth not light a candle , and sweep the house , and seek diligently till she find it ? |
| 6 | Will she eat one of those ? |
| 7 | She got one foot in the sand , and dragged it . |
| 8 | He shifted slightly , tugging at her skirts , and she got one arm free . |
| 9 | and J J , she got one week 's money did n't she ? |
| 10 | I think , she got one right hook ! |
| 11 | Why had she uttered one word ? |
| 12 | She asked one or two cursory questions about their published work . |
| 13 | " Where did you get this ? " she asked one evening , lifting Jennifer 's silver medallion to take a closer look . |
| 14 | She became one of those women reporters whose listening ear and less judgemental approach to people in trouble helped to make the distillation of news the more respected practice it is today . |
| 15 | She became one of the greatest sportswomen of the century and was stunningly beautiful to boot . |
| 16 | They married , and she moved to the States , where — in defiance of sexism , and her uncle Cyril , who once accosted her in a New York club with the words , ‘ Does your father know what you 're doing ? ’ — she became one of the most highly regarded piano players in Manhattan . |
| 17 | I suppose she was so grateful that she became one of his flock . |
| 18 | Sue Puffett explains how she became one of Britain 's few women thatchers . |
| 19 | He upset Mary further by saying he thought Adam 's sister Bridget very attractive and it would be an inducement to him if she became one of the members . |
| 20 | Joyce was to meet her and work with her again before she became one of the defendants in the trials of 1945 . |
| 21 | Subsequently she became one of the queens of the Parisian demi-monde , ruling in the late 1860s over a loucher version of the Court from which she had been excluded . |
| 22 | Describes her field trips in the tropics and how she became one of the world 's leading dragonfly experts . |
| 23 | from then she became one of the best-known faces on Australian television but quit after four years to try new acting challenges . |
| 24 | She became one of the notable personalities of the House of Commons , and in 1952 she was the first woman MP to be suspended from a sitting . |
| 25 | She became one of the first women fellows in 1919 , when women were finally admitted . |
| 26 | She became one of the vice-presidents of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage and was acting editor of the Common Cause in 1913 . |
| 27 | In October 1871 she became one of the first five students at Newnham College , Cambridge , founded by Henry Sidgwick [ q.v. ] with Anne Clough [ q.v. ] , a Bulley family friend , in charge . |
| 28 | For not only did Mrs Keppel maintain her position as maîtresse en titre but she became one of the leading personalities of the Edwardian court . |
| 29 | Where their flesh touched she became one thing with him . |
| 30 | She passed one of the heavy dishes to Isabel , whose cold , shaking hands nearly dropped it . |