Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Wendy Mountford was living in a house belonging to Mr Roger Street , under a written agreement headed " Licence " , in which she expressly agreed she had no Rent Act protection . |
| 2 | She perhaps wanted me to inherit the dark old house and to marry Estella . |
| 3 | Choosing a left turn , she soon found herself facing a blank door which might , for all she knew , lead to the cuttings library . |
| 4 | Suddenly she desperately wanted him to know the truth . |
| 5 | She just needed someone to take an interest in her , someone to draw her out and tell her what time of day it was . |
| 6 | She once said she liked the smell . |
| 7 | She knew all too well he meant nothing by it , that he probably had n't even noticed he was doing it , but she still found herself hoarding the memory of each insignificant caress as a miser would hoard gold . |
| 8 | She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm . |
| 9 | She also persuaded him to buy a hip-length jacket to help the suffering young lady keep warm if she was only sitting around nursing her ankle . |
| 10 | In summary , she had not only slipped away from their definitions of appropriate female behaviour , she also forced them to acknowledge a strange and unexpected relationship of equality between her and her God . |
| 11 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 12 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 13 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 14 | She did n't voice her thoughts but she immediately saw herself wearing the lime-green dress and the coat with the rose lining . |
| 15 | What I did n't realise was that she then felt she had a right to run my life . ’ |