Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 9 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 10 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 11 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 12 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 13 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 16 | In response to the unasked question she handed them the last cans . |
| 17 | She handed him the two parts of the torch and waited for him to piece the thing together . |
| 18 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 19 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |
| 20 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 21 | Er so I 'm gon na have them but she showed me the small room , what they call the small room , well that was huge well it will be perfect for what we want . |
| 22 | Even so , I did meet one girl at Binbrook who had knitted a whole twin set from darning wool cut into short lengths , weaving all the ends together as she knitted ! — and she showed me the finished product to prove it . |
| 23 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 24 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 25 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 26 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 27 | And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ? |
| 28 | She rang me the other day and said , ‘ I 've found this marvellous place for clothes — get in the car and we 'll go . ’ |
| 29 | I said then all you have to do is tell her how much she hurt you the last time |
| 30 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |