Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words brought to her eyes the same look that is in an eagle 's eyes as she flies again above moorland of the Western Isles and watches , far below , her own shadow flighting across the wild moorland wastes of Callanish . |
| 2 | She is indeed a transcendent figment of the creative literary imagination : According to Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , Alison escapes any punishment in the tale because she acts purely in accordance with " nature " . |
| 3 | I guessed this was happening , because er she told me that she gets here at quarter past seven . |
| 4 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 5 | She seems very at home in her skin . |
| 6 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |