Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ‘ Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ’ . |
2 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
3 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
4 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
5 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
6 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
7 | He was such a dear old thing , although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia . |
8 | Fortunately , she was a feminist and seldom asked for extra money , since she would consider that degrading , although she had accepted a house and school fees . |
9 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
10 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
11 | cos bread goes , although she 's got a freezer and a washing machine and everything at the villa , so she 's , she sold her house in Jersey and they 're gon na do the villa up because they , they 've sold it Christmas did n't they ? |
12 | Although she refused to declare a state of emergency , loyal forces were placed on full alert and , at the government 's request , the House of Representatives approved legislation which made participation in a coup attempt a specific crime punishable with up to life imprisonment . |
13 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
14 | She 's only got two suitcases , so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind — like her tailor 's dummy and all the furniture . |
15 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
16 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
17 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
18 | Mum could see she was getting nowhere so she tried shedding a tear or two . |
19 | But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory . |
20 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |
21 | It was lunchtime , so she suggested having a drink in the Flask . |
22 | Once she 'd taken a room in a village where the bus just happened to stop . |
23 | She was bone-weary , but she would be all right , she assured herself , once she 'd had a sit down and something to eat . |
24 | Once she had visited a friend who had a room in a house in North London ; she had accompanied her friend into the small back garden , and had been deeply shocked to find that the walls dividing the row of small terraced gardens were only two feet high . |
25 | Once she had read a caption under the picture of a royal bride-to-be . |
26 | Who to buy it for : Sandra Bernhard ( except she 's got a copy already ) ! |
27 | On 14 February 1637 , for example , he granted licence to Lady Mary Crane to cut down underwood in Stoke Park in Salcey Forest ‘ until she had made an agreement with His Majesty for the disafforestment thereof . |
28 | She had her difficulties , too , or she would have been with him by this ; but she was as much the prisoner of circumstances as he , and could not well take ship until she had established a firm and safe regime for her young son . |
29 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
30 | Xanthe sucked each leaf of her artichoke thoroughly , leaving precise teeth marks above the fleshy pad , then laid each one down on a plate in overlapping circles until she 'd formed a rosette , a second artichoke that looked almost untouched . |