Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] she [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor .
2 Her approach , in common with other innovators , was to get the very best from each and every child , using methods she had devised to achieve this goal .
3 With flashing eyes she stared hostilely up at him .
4 Above all , however , de Gaulle was worried that under the terms of the Treaty of Rome , the EEC was supposed , in January 1966 , to take more of its decisions by majority votes , which could force France to accept policies she did not want .
5 Through dazed , clouded eyes she gazed up at him , the taste of his kiss still tingling on her mouth , her heart beating an erratic tattoo within her breast .
6 The apothecary was bending over her , mumbling words she did n't understand .
7 He cracked jokes she did n't think were very funny .
8 Her eyelashes fluttered down to hide feelings she dared not let him see .
9 In a high voice he used expressions she 'd never heard before .
10 To provide jobs she started a small jam factory and she sponsored left-wing republican political initiatives .
11 It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat .
12 ‘ Maria Luisa should see you now , ’ was the first silly remark that came to Ruth 's pale lips as with trembling fingers she replaced the receiver .
13 With trembling fingers she began to unfasten the bolts .
14 With trembling fingers she tried the lock .
15 Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week .
16 She told officers she threw her baby into the river at about 7.30pm the same day .
17 She had to call on acting powers she 'd never known she possessed to face Marianne calmly , but before she could say a word there was a knock on the door and Josh 's friendly , bearded face appeared .
18 She probably says things she does n't mean …
19 He was n't going to come charging back , forcing her to remember things she had worked long and hard to forget , turning her entire world upside down for a second time .
20 Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country .
21 They watched her remembering things she had seen before .
22 No market advisers could ever have dreamed up a better ploy because Laura was only enunciating theories she had always believed in .
23 Sad Joanna told detectives she dreaded the thought of eating and drinking at parties over the holiday period .
24 When an audit showed money was missing from the hotel , 45-year-old Sandra Walker told police she knew but ‘ covered the loss ’ in the books ‘ in the hope of catching the thief when he stole again ’ , Guildford Brown Court heard on Friday .
25 When Stacey was found , Mrs Queripel told police she had disappeared from the family 's flat in Birch Hill , Bracknell , after being sent to bed early .
26 He told Police she 'd been violent and emotional when she left him at about 11.30 , an hour after she was supposed to have arrived .
27 The babysitter , 14 at the time of Stephen 's death in November last year , told police she found the little boy dead after leaving him alone to go to a disco .
28 She told police she threw the infant into the fast-flowing waters from the A61 road bridge at Killinghall before travelling to Thirsk , where she stayed overnight at the Busby Stoop Inn .
29 No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en .
30 It added complications she did n't wish to know about .
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