Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our mum tried them on she said but six foot four and a short arse she said |
| 2 | Eyeing me suspiciously she said , ‘ Are n't we all ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She lifted her arms and as she put them down she squeezed her sister Jackie 's hand and that was it . ’ |
| 4 | she 's had nothing so she has n't had anything done . |
| 5 | I think it 's because the passages are so small they get bunged up , I know Anna across the road 's got it done once but er Michelle said they 've come out , but er , they 're supposed to drain them so she said |
| 6 | She stands as the martyr of organized and systematic sexual wrong-doing on the part of the man who should be her mate , and whom alone she has evolved to the human plane . |
| 7 | But if I just she said lawn so I knew what it said . |
| 8 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 9 | She caught herself wondering whether by someone else she meant Paul Wickham . |
| 10 | She must tackle him herself , although there was someone else she wanted to see first . |
| 11 | ‘ If I want to cry , I hide in the toilet and feel desperate ’ , was a common reaction if I asked someone where she cried . |
| 12 | As she raised a trembling hand to brush them away she heard him swearing softly under his breath . |
| 13 | As she raised a hand to wipe them away she noticed how deeply the dirt had eaten into her fingernails , so that they were not , and so long as she worked never would be , pink and sweet and shell-like . |
| 14 | She longed to be back in his arms , to let his lips open her own , to melt against him , to give — and to take — the delight which instinctively she knew they could create together . |
| 15 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 16 | But when she wanted to write about herself , which only she knew about , then she wrote it alone . |
| 17 | of course he got all upset so she had to then mess about and try and get him to sleep , which apparently she did |
| 18 | Embarrassed by his closeness , which admittedly she had encouraged , she pulled herself away . |
| 19 | His thin pink lips , which normally she loved for their delicacy and sensitivity , were stretched in a colourless line , and between them showed sharp discoloured teeth . |
| 20 | Miss Beard , in the navy muslin with the cream lace collar which yesterday she had affected to consider too fine for the event , carried a cream parasol . |
| 21 | All the way home , she practised the words she would speak to Craig Grenfell , she must tell him to leave , to find another place to stay but the feeling of emptiness that swept over her whenever she thought of saying goodbye to him brought tears brimming to her eyes . |
| 22 | She came to terms with the computerized till , which often she had to deal with . |
| 23 | The radio had Christmas music which often she did not like , huge oratorios and quasi-religious peculiar plays . |
| 24 | Mrs Crump 's talk of the girl 's father 's immense wealth — which surely she had inherited — had abolished all that fruitless toying with marriage to the innkeeper 's daughter in Buttermere . |
| 25 | It was ridiculous to be upset at all , since she had herself intended to tell Nick she was married as soon as she saw him , or to make sure he saw her left hand on which today she had taken care to wear her wedding ring . |
| 26 | The upheaval of the French Revolution made her increasingly hostile to the ideas of the Enlightenment which earlier she had actively promoted in Russia . |
| 27 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 28 | And asked himself how she came by it . |
| 29 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 30 | This crazy world whirled about her , men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets , where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked and played musical instruments in the small and terrible hours of the night into which again she had been thrust . |