Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
2 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
3 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
4 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
5 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
6 | She turned on him a glance of tearful gratitude that caused Karelius an unexpectedly sharp pang of jealousy . |
7 | She turned on me a look so cold , so calculating , that I almost shrank from her . |
8 | The two men , one called Willie and the other called Arthur , were standing with their caps on , and as she walked towards them the man called Mike , the big one , said to her , ‘ Sorry I was rough on you , miss . ’ |
9 | Desperately trying to think of something to say , she heard behind her the sound of Ross clearing his throat . |
10 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
11 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
12 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
13 | She thought about him a lot . |
14 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
15 | She stared at him a moment , then understood . |
16 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
17 | She looked at him a bit anxiously , wondering how she was going to tell him , and suddenly the hard face softened and he held out his hand . |
18 | She looked at him a moment , as if to read him , then smiled . |
19 | She saw above her a map of the Tyne and Wear Metro , not to mention information about trains round Whitby , Northallerton and Darlington . |
20 | But of course we were you know crossing our fingers and she went to her every time . |
21 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
22 | She removed from him every material care and frivolity … |
23 | When Gladys Aylward , the unstoppable English missionary , set off for China from Liverpool Street Station in 1930 , she had with her a suitcase containing hard-boiled eggs , meat cubes , tins of corned beef , baked beans , biscuits and soda cakes . |
24 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
25 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |