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Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis .
2	With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will .
3	Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs .
4	I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life .
5	There was a tight , hard knot in her stomach that seemed to preclude eating , but in a gesture of defiance she helped herself to a platter of seafood .
6	We extend thanks to Brian Perry , Director of the Library 's Research and Development Department ( R&DD ) for his encouragement and his ‘ after dinner ’ thoughts on the 25th of June , and to Stephanie Kenna , also of the British Library 's R&DD , for the essential guidance and assistance she gave us throughout the pre- and post-seminar stages .
7	Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen .
8	From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat .
9	Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a
10	Me Mary had a mi metal cow she milked it with a spout , she too
11	I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner .
12	Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor .
13	For a moment she held him like a baby in her arms .
14	Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic .
15	I think it was a mongrel she got it from the animal rescue
16	In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal .
17	But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck .
18	But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert .
19	In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport .
20	In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair .
21	Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields .
22	One day she left it on a table in the coffee bar for two minutes while she went to get some sugar .
23	I remember one day she slapped me across the jaw .
24	Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished .
25	On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys .
26	On one occasion she threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace while on another she slashed at her wrists with a razor blade .
27	Sara had a key now and with a sense of the importance of the occasion she put it in the door and they entered the house .
28	Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work .
29	But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window .
30	He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life .