Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She very kindly invited me to lunch and she has given me a lot of useful information . ’ |
| 3 | He is merely expressing a suspicion , and in a sense a hope ( ‘ when she has given him the clap , then he 'll come back to me ’ , to modernize it somewhat ) . |
| 4 | She has given us an account of her experiences . |
| 5 | Sherie intends to take Neil on holiday after Christmas to help him over his ordeal — after she has bought him the mountain bike he has set his heart on . |
| 6 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 7 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 8 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 9 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 10 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 11 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 12 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 13 | ‘ Little things , ’ he 'd said when , just before he fell asleep , she 'd asked him the question once more . |
| 14 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 15 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
| 16 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 17 | She 'd promised me a recipe . ’ |
| 18 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 19 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 20 | Would she have allowed him the use of it in any outside circumstance , anywhere that open sexual contact would be anything other than common and unremarkable , and was he being honest in trying to tap some dry spring of old feelings to further his own ends now ? |
| 21 | Gabriel had collected Steve from school and brought him home , where she had cooked him a meal . |
| 22 | If she had planned it the blow could not have been more accurate . |
| 23 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 24 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |
| 25 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |
| 26 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 27 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 28 | Once again she had given him an order . |
| 29 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 30 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |