Example sentences of "she [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 2 | She heard a footfall , she pressed herself back , keeping an eye on the street ; in a doorway , further on , a silhouette detached itself for a moment , and she saw a man throw his head back and shake it as if intoxicated , while holding his arms extended , and she fancied she heard him speak to his own fidanzata of that evening , she imagined him murmuring about her hair — as dark as a raven 's wing , perhaps ? |
| 3 | She 'd reverted to her glasses because she thought they made her look older and more respectable , somehow , the way people wanted a doctor to look . |
| 4 | As he bent to her , she thought she heard him murmur , ‘ Well , well , well . |
| 5 | She thought she heard him praise the tinge of blood rising in her cheek , like the breast of chaffinches , and smell her skin like peach blossom and orange together . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not crackers , ’ she thought she heard him say next , through high-volume Madonna . |
| 7 | " You sweet creature , " she thought she heard him say and she felt a warm butterfly kiss on her mouth . |
| 8 | His mother-in-law had always used well-water , so when she died he felt it appropriate to draw water from the well to make the tea at her funeral . |
| 9 | she said you let them treat you like that , |
| 10 | What she said and how she said it made me feel like a child . |
| 11 | She supposed it made her look jaunty , yet she felt anything but that . |