Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no .
3 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 !
4 ‘ 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 .
5 She told her the plain truth .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth .
9 Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story .
10 She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle .
11 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 !
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 She showed him the long notes and the short notes .
17 She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again .
18 And then — she called me the Lost Prince , but supposing there is another Lost Prince ?
19 She rang me the other day and said , ‘ I 've found this marvellous place for clothes — get in the car and we 'll go . ’
20 She offered him the half-smoked burnie but he batted it angrily from her fingers before heading back towards the concourse .
21 She sent him the sudden grin again and Caspar said , ‘ Oh dear me , what optimism , ’ but he said it quietly .
22 And she gave me the immortal reply , ‘ No , I 'm Heather , but wo n't I do ? ’
23 We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added .
24 That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ?
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