Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 2 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 3 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 4 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 5 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
| 6 | She was breathless , shivering with cold as she hid herself behind the curtains of the four-poster . |
| 7 | Her eyes were cold when she lifted them to Piper 's face . |
| 8 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 9 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 10 | She felt very vulnerable and awkward as she followed him into the room . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have been terrible when she told you about Nicola 's affair with Parkin . |
| 12 | She reminded herself that it was unlikely that all people could possibly be as stupid as she supposed them to be ; that at some level even she , Lydia the clever , could find common ground and communicate intelligibly with other human beings . |
| 13 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 14 | She knew that , as long as she applied it with care , she had great power over Bernard . |
| 15 | As long as she approaches everything with as much fascination and energy as she does now , she 'll retain her freshness forever . |
| 16 | Never happy unless she has something in her mouth , ’ he confided to me . |
| 17 | She was happy when she starved herself of new clothes and expensive hairdressers , her bun gone , her blonde hair cut short , strict and styleless , by a merciless local hairdresser . |
| 18 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 19 | She 's trying to sell the place ; she 'd make damn sure that those figures were available if she wanted them to be seen . |
| 20 | Rachel got to her feet , pen and notepad in hand , forcing herself to keep her disintegrating professional cool as she followed him into his luxurious modern office overlooking the city . |
| 21 | Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean . |
| 22 | She was naked as she drew him towards her . |
| 23 | Five years ago she 'd have got the woman sacked on some pretext , rendering her harmless if she alleged anything against a reputable doctor in a famous clinic . |
| 24 | Ettedgui , who had supported Hamnett by selling her first clothes in his shops , was upset when she abandoned him in favour of Bertelsen , an oil-rich entrepreneur who arrived in London offering designer deals and retail arrangements in 1986 . |
| 25 | He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived . |
| 26 | Slightly put off by his failure to take any notice of her as she entered , her voice was hesitant as she greeted him in her best Spanish . |
| 27 | It did n't sound so bad if she said it like that — family — no threat to Glyn 's ego . |
| 28 | He said if she then sold her house he said put the capital he said alright he said she with not buying a you know , another house now you know the fact is he said alright if she got one in her area or wherever . |
| 29 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
| 30 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |