Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] she [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe Angy had offered to show her some more of her work , or lend her a book or something . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Lisa was in constant agony , but I could n't even comfort her or give her a cuddle because of the plaster . ’ |
| 3 | He interrupted himself to explain , ‘ I did n't make any false promises or give her a lot of romantic fantasy to persuade her . |
| 4 | But she could n't remember anyone approaching her , or giving her the document . |
| 5 | Or ask her a bit later . |
| 6 | Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing . |
| 7 | Sarah had produced a child by another man , and that made her a loose woman . |
| 8 | But it was Susannah 's passionate appeal to the girls to support her party because she believes the Liberal Democrats care about the homeless that made her the winner . |
| 9 | It was this certainty that made her the leader . |
| 10 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 11 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 12 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 13 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 14 | But it was the knowledge that he 'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most . |
| 15 | Feeling battered in mind and body by the time Laura announced that she felt able to take a break — and how about an early lunch ? — Anita could do no more than give her a dumb nod of agreement . |
| 16 | With a tenderness that surprised her the Frenchman put his arms around her and lifted her onto the cot beside him . |
| 17 | If that did n't work , it was more logical to let her express her anger in the safety of her mother 's arms than to give her an irrelevant bottle , dummy or biscuit . |
| 18 | She wore a black dress reaching to just above her knees , suspended from her shoulders by straps no thicker than shoe laces ; black stockings , encasing surprisingly slim legs , and very high-heeled red shoes that elevated her an inch or so above Morse as he stood up and offered her his stool . |
| 19 | They were looking into each other 's eyes with a tenderness that brought her a cruel , twisting anguish . |
| 20 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 21 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 22 | Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage . |
| 23 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 24 | Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic . |
| 25 | As any girl knew , with any normal man , that gave her the ace . |
| 26 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 27 | Also any that gave her the wrong kind of buzz . |
| 28 | Emyard 's influence on a young woman from Tours , Emilie Tamisier ( 1834–1910 ) , that gave her the inspiration to dedicate herself to the salvation of society through the Eucharist . |
| 29 | Strangely , it was the part of a girl in her mid-twenties ( close to Carole Ann Ford 's own age at the time ) , in the traumatic play Man on a Bicycle , that won her an invitation to visit the Doctor Who Office and discuss the role of Susan with Verity Lambert . |
| 30 | When she went to bed she found it impossible to sleep , and started thinking about her ex-boyfriend and about the paperwork that awaited her the next day . |