Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Currie says she does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ — politicians sitting both at Westminster and Strasbourg , and intends resigning her Westminster seat if she makes it to Strasbourg . |
| 2 | Then he pushed everything from his mind as she touched him between his legs . |
| 3 | Ace unfastened her safety harness and clutched the sides of her shaking couch as she pulled herself into a sitting position . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope Wilmot can handle this , ’ said Holly anticipating the lawyer 's reproach when she explained herself to him . |
| 5 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 6 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 7 | As his wife had pointed out tartly , on many occasions , she herself would never get through a quarter of her work if she indulged herself in such idleness . |
| 8 | I 'm aching to run , but make myself sit for a second while she watches me through the black circles . |
| 9 | A woman who was in danger of losing her home after she mortgaged it as security for her husband 's business debts , has won the right to keep it following a victory in the House of Lords . |
| 10 | Miss Giles had earlier told Wells Street magistrates that she had not considered the film to be ‘ a very hot potato ’ and had not realised she was breaking the law when she showed it to about 120 people last April . |
| 11 | Gina gave an awkward laugh as she detached herself from his hold . |
| 12 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose Mrs C. thought I 'd be swilling it down like an alcoholic if she left it in the room . |
| 14 | Raymond Lully featured among them , though in apocryphal form , as the subject of a singular conversion experience : inflamed by illicit passion for a married woman , he would brook no denial until she took him to her house and there , in the presence of her husband , bared to Raymond 's astonished eyes a breast almost entirely devoured by cancer . |
| 15 | Carol became involved with the group because she knew someone with Leukaemia and wanted to help . |
| 16 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ she admitted reluctantly , eyes carrying a teasing glint as she lifted them to his . |
| 18 | Shunning the sensational electricity of Glenn Gould ( Sony ) , the academic care of Robert Riefling ( Simax ) , and the post-clavichord wistfulness of András Schiff ( Decca ) , Tatiana Nikolayeva goes her own authoritative and purposeful way towards the musical truth as she conceives it to be . |
| 19 | ‘ Hallo , ’ said the Englishman as she helped herself to a mug of courtesy coffee at the desk . |
| 20 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |
| 21 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 22 | To acknowledge it — as the cards insisted that she must — a portion of herself , was to recognize features which were paltry and despicable ; it forced the reluctant awareness that she was , in part at least , a smaller person than she believed herself to be . |
| 23 | And they were still chatting comfortably with each other when she rejoined them in the living-room , feeling very much like a spare part . |
| 24 | She never forgot his name as she connected it with heraldry . |
| 25 | ‘ I was walking down Piccadilly in 1973 with the woman who was later to become my wife when she grabbed me by the arm and steered me into St James 's church to see the carvings ’ . |
| 26 | She had only been mad at Dan , because he had brought up Patrick 's name when she wanted him to be a secret . |
| 27 | He loved being watched by Bathsheba , and felt warm with pride when she congratulated him on his speed . |
| 28 | Did he surrender , walking in the summer with Kee and the child , to his craving for a wife and family , to such an extent that an invented relationship became true — only to collapse , tipping him into shock when she abandoned him with her ‘ No , never never ’ ? |
| 29 | At the James Bulger trial , a woman has told the court how she confronted two boys and the frightened toddler when she saw him with injuries , but was told he 'd fallen and was being taken home . |
| 30 | Stars winked from the metal as she faced him across the byre . |