Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was there with me and she knew these people were asking me .
2 centre and she 'd weighed me and she said nine stone seven , I said what ?
3 She listened to me and she took copious notes , but it was as if her understanding was glazed over .
4 Diane Blakemore for instance uses she and her to mean any person , male or female :
5 Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters .
6 If you can keep the home free from allergens and other offending substances , your child 's health may be good enough for him or her to tolerate limited exposure at school .
7 However , when dealing with the primary sufferer and attempting to get him or her to seek appropriate treatment through a 12 Step programme it is best to avoid antagonising the denial system by being too direct .
8 Generally , it is best for him or her to have some input into the management and other contracts instead of inheriting them from a lawyer .
9 If I , as a subordinate , recognize that authority to control resources in my boss and , on that basis , allow him or her to exercise that authority , then my boss has power based on a position in the hierarchy .
10 The important contribution made to book provision by the personal flair of the selector creates further difficulties for the manager , and requires him or her to exercise fine judgement and sensitivity in supervising the work of members of the team .
11 By 1907 rheumatoid arthritis had almost crippled her and she suffered long periods of inactivity , but refused either to move to the comfort of Duke Town or to return to Britain .
12 A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss .
13 I saw her and she said fourteen days ' loss of privileges .
14 Passing drivers helped her and she spent 24 hours in Dumfries Infirmary .
15 But then she remembered the insults he had piled on her and she stifled any sympathy before it got out of hand .
16 ‘ Last month we had a 10th birthday party for her and she invited nine friends , which she seemed to enjoy very much .
17 If the sociologist is present at the moment of speech-production , whether as observer or interviewer , then he or she plays some part in the creation of the dialogue .
18 But suppose now suppose I were a middle-aged to elderly teacher who had never come across dyslexia until recently and was now aware that he or she had dyslexic pupils , the first thing to do , I think , is to inform yourself .
19 There is also a strong sense of' learning' , in which the student identifies with the truth claim he or she is faced with , and can offer it ( for example , back to the consultant physician ) as something with which he or she had personal experience ( having had an opportunity to examine some patients ) .
20 For someone suffering from addiction there is no such thing as free choice : he or she gets unconditional damage from the addictive use of drugs or alcohol .
21 See that your client initials all alterations to any document executed , and that he or she signs any plan attached to it — this being unnecessary , however , if the plan is drawn on the actual document .
22 The marine invertebrate keeper will encounter more uninvited guests than other hobbyists if he or she uses living rock to decorate their tanks .
23 All too easily , he or she forms subjective opinions about the relative sales potential of different territories , but lacks an objective framework for setting sales quotas .
24 Probably the most accurate statement would be that a person intends to kill if it is his or her purpose to kill by the act or omission charged , or if he or she foresees that death is practically certain to follow from that act or omission .
25 He or she brings good sight and the beginnings of visual discrimination .
26 The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) .
27 In these circumstances the analyst can not help becoming involved , particularly if he or she has elderly relatives in similar situations , and it is sometimes difficult to retain objectivity .
28 Private property as a notion conflates the direct relationship between the individual and those objects with which he or she is associated in self-construction with those over which he or she has legal rights .
29 With the help of 106 pairs of identical twins , Dr Colin Johnston and colleagues at King 's College Hospital and st Bartholomew 's Hospital in London showed that the risk of developing diabetes is far greater if a person has both DR3 and DR4 than if he or she has either antigen alone ( British Medical Journal , p 286 , vol 253 ) .
30 A writer is also eligible if he or she has three works broadcast on the radio or the television .
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