Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] she " in BNC.

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1 He moved aside but not right out of the narrow passageway and she was forced to squeeze past him .
2 Her hand strayed to touch his short thick hair , a small yelp of surprise escaping her as her wrist was grasped by strong fingers and she found herself looking down into alert blue eyes .
3 She is a bloody hurricane when she is in the mood .
4 She made some weak excuse when she telephoned to break the appointment , but she knew perfectly well that she was apprehensive about going out in case the weather changed and it began to rain .
5 Fergie lost her armed protection when she and Prince Andrew split up .
6 It was that money that she used to pay the mortgage .
7 Robyn enquired with as much derisive sarcasm as she could muster , deliberately blocking out the memory of how wonderful it had felt with Luke and how sordid and somehow dirty it had felt when Callum had touched her .
8 I like all this and that bit but she has er , you end up to go on the dirty little foxes and you get on and there 's so , runny nosed yobbo kid about twelve , gets on
9 I like that bit cos she do n't get him .
10 She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar .
11 Marie Wilkes had to make that decision when she broke down on the M50 in the Summer of 1988 .
12 She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now
13 She was not used to searching through his private possessions but she needed to learn the truth before he returned home .
14 Baby Jasmine TYaylor died just eight hours after she was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford .
15 She said , well there was n't only one version of that y'know and she knew the lot and there were all the d slightly different versions y'know , on the country gate and things like that .
16 She felt him pushing her backwards on the overstuffed settee and she let him .
17 Grundy , had a weak case because she owed much of her success to Neighbours .
18 Fifty minutes after she left , at about 3pm , two UFF gunmen walked into the Jon David salon in the west of the city and shot Mr Hughes ( 40 ) several times .
19 The appendix does not have any function in man ( i.e. it is a vestigial organ ) and therefore its removal would make no difference to Julie 's normal activities once she had recovered from the operation itself .
20 There was an owl whose names was Blanche perch bravely on a narrow branch when she asked if she could fly , the others said into the sky high , high , high , so one fine day they came out and stood on a branch all big and stout , she jumped , she thought that she could fly
21 There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders .
22 I must be brave for Perdita 's sake , said Daisy through chattering teeth as she pressed the door bell .
23 Somewhere inside her was a weak hope that she had not spoken .
24 The huge wrought-iron gates of Casa Pinar were wide open when she got back later that afternoon so she knew Fernando was home .
25 Dolly tried to keep her weight off her right foot as she climbed the stairs .
26 The discreet feelers that she put out during the drive back to Anduze met with monosyllabic replies that indicated , firmly but politely , that the matter was no concern of hers .
27 Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) :
28 It was a cruel trick that she had been a dream , that he could not join her yet .
29 But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet .
30 Her stomach swooped at the grudging respect in his voice and she bit her lip unhappily , but her gaze fell on Katarina 's tumbled hair and she faced up to him again .
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