Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 2 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 3 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 4 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 5 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 6 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 7 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 8 | Nor was the conversation doing anything other than drag down her spirits , so she brought it to a close by saying , ‘ I must go back to the office . |
| 9 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 10 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 11 | The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ . |
| 12 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 13 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 14 | He was being kind , she could tell , and not probing further , so she rewarded him with a rather watery smile , and said sententiously , ‘ There 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 15 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 16 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 17 | and I was probably alright , until she kicked me under the table Paul ! |
| 18 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cos she had them in a plastic bag . |
| 21 | I goes what ? , oh do n't worry , I was pretending not to hear what she was saying cos she misses it after a while , thought |
| 22 | But she would make him pay for this , she vowed to herself silently , even if she killed herself in the process ! |
| 23 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 24 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 25 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 26 | It was easier , for example , to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film , possibly played by Orson Welles . |
| 27 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | What would he say if she told him of the background that had left her with a deep and enduring mistrust of men ? |
| 30 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |