Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted him a scornful glance . |
| 2 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 3 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 4 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 5 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 6 | Her hand came up and she caught him a stinging blow across the cheek , watching without a flicker as the mark turned first white , then red . |
| 7 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 8 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 9 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 10 | She cast him a scathing look . |
| 11 | She darted him a quick smile . |
| 12 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 13 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
| 14 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 15 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 16 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 17 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 18 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 19 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 20 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 21 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 22 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 23 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 24 | She threw him a cool look as she scooped the papers from his desk . |
| 25 | She threw him a cool look . |
| 26 | She threw him a wide smile . |
| 27 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 28 | She threw him a suspicious look . |
| 29 | She threw him a quick glance . |
| 30 | She threw him a quick glance . |