Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was n't real muslin but she made it out of this material .
2 Some water dripped from the tip of her nose into her mouth and she wiped it away with one swift movement .
3 Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine .
4 ‘ I expect she would laugh her socks off if she found you here in royal regalia ! ’
5 What would Miss Mates think if she found us here like this ? ’
6 Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ?
7 The feeling of being in the centre of things , of constant activity , of being in charge not only of a vehicle but its VIP occupant — or occupants — and the different venues to and from which she transported them all over southern England , appealed enormously to her restless nature and craving for excitement .
8 She played him patiently for two days before she hooked him , and reeled him in .
9 After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures .
10 Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards .
11 She handed them over without any further argument .
12 So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ?
13 Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 .
14 She followed him over towards one of the big sofas , careful as she sat to leave as much of a gap between them as possible .
15 Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour .
16 Rather than taking the piece as a whole she broke it down into smaller parts and then worked on them with separate hands and at varied rhythms .
17 After that whenever he came near she warned him off with bared teeth .
18 ‘ We 'll take the caravans nearest the town if you and Tumbleweed look for the strays further afield , ’ Elinor suggested as she sorted us out into mixed doubles .
19 Now , leading the way across a parquet-floored drawing-room , she took them out through French windows into a large walled garden .
20 No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all .
21 Her pencil rattled out a staccato rhythm on the desk-top , as she tossed it angrily to one side .
22 She dressed them up in full nineteenth century bourgeois feminine regalia and had them flower arranging or idling by the mantelpiece as in ‘ Angela ’ .
23 Well on mine she did it once , it did n't work so she did it again for free and then it all started breaking off .
24 Luke would never forgive her if she gave them away with some unwitting comment .
25 Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise .
26 Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise .
27 But she married me out of simple respect .
28 Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her .
29 and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ?
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