Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 2 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 3 | She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’ |
| 4 | He began to nibble the lobe of her ear and seemed lost for a moment until she gave him a little shake to encourage him to go on and explain . |
| 5 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 6 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 7 | What would Fen say if she gave him a truthful answer , told him that Hugh had done her a good turn , jilted her before she could make the most dreadful mistake of her life ? |
| 8 | ‘ He has left you a cottage in Devonshire , and he said : ‘ Tell her it 's not because she saved my life , but because she gave me a fourpenny cigar . ' ’ |
| 9 | That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ? |
| 10 | He greeted her very warmly and blushed in the sweetest way when she gave him a sisterly kiss . |
| 11 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 12 | She carefully left enough of her father 's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple . |
| 13 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 14 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 15 | When she did it the second time . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 17 | Lucy swallowed as she sent him a nervous glance . |
| 18 | The genuine note of admiration in his voice sent a tiny and thoroughly illogical frisson of pleasure running through her , and she felt the faint tide of colour swim into her face as she sent him an answering smile . |
| 19 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 20 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 21 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 22 | Fran brought her thoughts back to the moment , forcing a slight , polite smile to her lips as she flicked him a quick sideways glance . |
| 23 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 24 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 25 | Des O'Grady must have made some audacious remark to her in his broad Irish accent for she gave him a wide grin , showing her impeccable set of incisors . |
| 26 | She was , consequently , full of wedding plans when she came , as was her wont — for she considered it an inescapable part of her parish duties — to visit Lavinia Merchiston . |