Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [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 won the first , she won what did she win ? |
| 10 | I said bye then see you sometime , bye and I put the phone down , and she said what does she want then and I said oh she wanted to know where , you know she 'd gone and I said oh I have n't seen her all week you know after , while we was hanging , she was hanging pictures , erm , she come through , she said oh they look wonderful she said I 've got pictures she said , I want my mountain put up in my lounge , with that June burst out laughing , Neil went through and he , he put her pictures up and he was gone there , he said , god he said , you know literally it 's a day to hang pictures , I said well do n't worry about it , you know , that 's what he said to do |
| 11 | And she said what do you mean ? |
| 12 | she said who do you pay the bill to ? , to I says the post office , well do n't they pay you for having their telephone |
| 13 | she said you let them treat you like that , |
| 14 | What she said and how she said it made me feel like a child . |
| 15 | She wondered what made him think she desired a flogging . |
| 16 | She supposed it made her look jaunty , yet she felt anything but that . |