Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain , she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body …
2 She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer .
3 She helped him lose two stones .
4 Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing .
5 When at last she lifted her head , she found herself facing three pairs of curious , slightly embarrassed eyes .
6 She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town .
7 She watched him raise one hand to rub the nape of his neck , then flex his shoulder muscles .
8 She saw him rub one hand across his forehead , as if wiping away perspiration .
9 She sent me to fetch two cups , and told me then to go to my own tea .
10 She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them
11 I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ?
12 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
13 And she said ooh she said I got two grandads .
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