Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 2 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 3 | She made it with thirty seconds to spare . |
| 4 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 5 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 7 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 8 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 9 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 10 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 11 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 12 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 13 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 14 | Then she tried 'em with new make-up On a sponsored run round Bacup , And at Norwich for a porridge Eating contest which she won . |
| 15 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 16 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 17 | She found it within five minutes . |
| 18 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 19 | Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting . |
| 20 | She fixed him with anxious eyes . |
| 21 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 22 | She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 24 | Her hands rested on it as she surveyed me with calm enquiry . |
| 25 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 28 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 30 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |