Example sentences of "and she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 2 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 3 | Her marriage to John Fenwick ( possibly on 8 May 1781 at St Dunstan , Stepney ) , a radical author and translator , proved disastrous and she left him in 1800 ‘ determined … to consider myself and children totally separated from his bad or good fortunes ’ . |
| 4 | His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months . |
| 5 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 6 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 7 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 8 | And she said it with such pride and such display that Clara did not feel at all obliged to conceal the amazement and delight that she felt , as she might , if confronted with a more worldly modesty , have done : for Clelia 's manner declared , this is singular this is beautiful , this may legitimately amaze , you betray no innocence in admiring this . |
| 9 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 10 | It was a sign and she accepted it as such . |
| 11 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 12 | She shook off the treacherous thought ; Dana was her twin and she loved her with all her faults — goodness knew , she had enough of her own . |
| 13 | Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one . |
| 14 | The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand . |
| 15 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 16 | I held out a hand , and she pinched it with tiny , black-gloved fingers . |
| 17 | During my stay in her country we were always together , and she saved me from many dangerous situations . |
| 18 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 19 | Out of the corner of her mouth — and she did it with great flair — Sorrel said : |
| 20 | ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer . |
| 21 | The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too . |
| 22 | It had hardened slightly and she moistened it with icy water , kneading it until it shed a film of white liquid . |
| 23 | On a visit to Mrs Chamberlin she explained that she did not like to leave her aunt and would from then on come only once a week , and she put it about that for the moment , neither she nor her aunt would be at home on Wednesday afternoons . |
| 24 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |