Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Pember Reeves noted that the Lambeth housewives she visited ‘ seemed to expect judgement to be passed on the absent man according to the amount he allowed them . ’ |
| 2 | She thought of the purple crimplene trousers with the saggy bum and elasticated waist that her mother put on to keep warm in the factory and the thick support tights she wore all year round , even under her trousers , because she said her legs ached . |
| 3 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 4 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
| 5 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 6 | Would Gay like the bedroom slippers she had sent her for Christmas ? |
| 7 | It floated down to the threadbare navy-blue carpet , some settling on the bedroom slippers she wore . |
| 8 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 9 | Anna found she could do it quite well , but Corrie had no aptitude at all , though when it came to learning Foundling hymns she excelled . |
| 10 | Deborah Ford told ambulance officers she saw the shark take her husband , John . |
| 11 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 12 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 13 | On the table before us , incongruous among the polystyrene coffee cups , were the old-fashioned cloth-bound photograph albums she 'd brought with her . |
| 14 | She had come to pick up her mother 's possessions : the cracked Harrods dinner service , souvenirs of trips to Brighton and Bournemouth , the frayed and tired linen , the cooking pots , the scarlet tea cosy her mother had knitted , the family photograph albums she valued so much . |
| 15 | When the community midwife calls at home on day 6 or 7 to take the heel prick blood sample for the usual screening tests she asks whether or not they want their son tested for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and marks the screening card accordingly . |
| 16 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 17 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 18 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 19 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 20 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 21 | Some of the shields , spears , fetishistic objects and lion's-teeth necklaces she has been presented with on her travels are displayed . |
| 22 | Asked if she had received notification from the TV licensing authorities she said : ‘ I do n't know — I do n't handle all my mail . ’ |
| 23 | And unlike most of the blondes popping up in Aussie soaps she does n't fit into the bimbo mould either , which rules out many of the high-profile parts . |
| 24 | She had tried all the sane home remedies she had ever heard of to dislodge it . |
| 25 | She stepped out herself then , hoping to get nearer ; she would like to see what he was doing to her , for she had no clear idea , in spite of the expert descriptions she provided for Cati in their vigils . |
| 26 | Lindy discovered Norman Cook through his bootleg mixes she heard in clubs . |
| 27 | Of her shoot-out paintings she writes : ‘ It was not only exciting and sexy , but tragic as though one were witnessing a birth and a death at the same moment . |
| 28 | Later , travelling knowledgeably south at thirty , at forty , full of accrued wisdom about good little places , local food and wine , Cafes Routiers and long-vanished sand dunes she tried to remember the surprises , only half-experienced that day , of that land to her unexpecting eyes . |
| 29 | Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she has n't seen for some time . |
| 30 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |