Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The palms of her hands were sweating , and she wiped them against the legs of her tunic . |
| 2 | but she got it in the greens |
| 3 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 4 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 5 | She told them of the hardships suffered by our men . |
| 6 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
| 7 | She told him about the anti-blood-sports campaigner . |
| 8 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 9 | As she hauled me up the stairs I braced myself for ‘ What the blazes , Bina ? |
| 10 | Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta . |
| 11 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 12 | She blamed it on the after-effects of the trial and the feta cheese in the salad . |
| 13 | Stumbling a little , she followed him up the steps and across the moonlit terrace into the palazzo . |
| 14 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 15 | She followed her to the ladies ' washroom . |
| 16 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 17 | She elbowed him in the ribs . |
| 18 | But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself . |
| 19 | She contacted me through a friends , that 's the way most people contact me . |
| 20 | The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper . |
| 21 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 22 | She watched him across the points of the stakes . |
| 23 | Then she placed it on the flames . |
| 24 | She pulled me off the streets really . ’ |
| 25 | brought , brought one of those padded things sort of orange things and she pulled me to the steps |
| 26 | Taking wings of it back on either side of her face , she anchored them with the combs and stood in front of the looking glass to assess the result . |
| 27 | She impaled it through the ribs a second time and the point took and held , and this time when she jerked the Scarag to the side it came with her , clutching at the killing wood . |
| 28 | She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’ |
| 29 | She took me into the nurses ' changing-room . |
| 30 | She took her by the shoulders and turned her round to face the house . |