Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her senses are , of course , less acute than mine : if she feels even the slightest admonitory prickle on her nape , she misinterprets it as a spattering of raindrops , instead of a stranger 's gaze . |
| 2 | She wants me at the birth . |
| 3 | She wants me off the case . |
| 4 | She has them in the bathroom with her , and she apologizes : ‘ I 've just put fifty pence in the meter to get water for our bath . ’ |
| 5 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 6 | I mean she loves it with the kids |
| 7 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 8 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 9 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 10 | Later she sprays him with an atomiser . |
| 11 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 12 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 13 | ‘ She has been the target of such spite that it disgraces those who offer it , and she bears it with a dignity that makes me proud , ’ he said as Mrs Kinnock stood behind him , smiling but with tears in her eyes . |
| 14 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 15 | And I do n't go out that much , but then she wears them to the garage , to work ! |
| 16 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 17 | She attends to the reservations , and when people arrive she shows them to the chalets she 's arranged for them to occupy . ’ |
| 18 | Awards are nice for the day , and they glitter — my mother has got all mine and she polishes them within an inch of their lives , she 's polished all the gold glitter away and it 's base metal underneath , and I think that 's a fairly apt analogy of what a prize is . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'll cast a spell on you if she sees you in the wood , ’ Kay warned . |
| 20 | For my character that 's been her hook on life , she sees it as a way of competing with women who are brighter or have got more of a start in life . |
| 21 | So if a girl does not feel able to go and ask for the Pill , or if she is reluctant to use it because she sees it as a health risk , the alternative may be to use nothing . |
| 22 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 23 | Then comes ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ and knocks you over ; she wrenches it from the grasp of Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette and makes it absolutely her own , Phil Ramone 's arrangement swelling dramatically to Sinead 's own end-piece , and with the last emphatic plea of ‘ Am I not your girl ? ’ both you and she fall down , emotionally exhausted . |
| 24 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 25 | She takes him to a tailor ( hence the gorgeous green suit and bowler hat ) , hires a tutor and even buys him a car . |
| 26 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
| 27 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 28 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
| 29 | She takes me by the hand , but stops , and kisses Bob straight on the lips . |
| 30 | If her looks are appreciated , she takes it as a bonus , knowing that the passing of time makes such compliments precious . |