Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maura was more like her brothers than she cared to think about . |
| 2 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 3 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 4 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 5 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |
| 6 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 7 | She had bought a pretty pine desk , and had scoured the antique shops until she found the perfect eighteenth-century light-mahogany chair to go with it . |
| 8 | It might not be to everyone 's taste or be able to last for hundreds of years but you have to admit that she would turn a few heads if she appeared sitting casually in your garden . |
| 9 | You can be sure that a woman must have big and thick labia if she has a big mouth and thick lips . |
| 10 | His tongue teased at her lips until she opened them helplessly , allowing him to deepen the kiss , his tongue stroking hers in an act of burning sexuality that had her sagging against him . |
| 11 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |
| 12 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 13 | She went to the door and he recited the words until she had gone out and shut the door behind her . |
| 14 | She handed it to Donna and stood by her as she flipped through it , running her finger down the columns of words until she found what she sought . |
| 15 | But she had just settled down , flicking the control through a dozen or so channels until she found the one she wanted , when the door opened and Marc himself came in . |
| 16 | ‘ Let's get back upstairs , ’ she said En route Maggie hunted through several bedrooms until she found suitable dry clothes , while Bryce stopped off at his bedroom on the staff floor and also changed . |
| 17 | She kicked and screamed her defiance until her father told her that it would be considered very bad manners if she did n't join the other children . |
| 18 | He kept the smile on his lips till she had closed the door . |
| 19 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 20 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 21 | She can nae take him in to the dentists till she gets rid of them . |
| 22 | She seems to have been a girl who drifted into relationships because she did n't like upsetting people . |
| 23 | He drew finger patterns on her thighs , and she opened her legs because she wanted to . |
| 24 | She did n't know the colour of his eyes because she had never looked into them . |
| 25 | See Mary Ann and Mitch are giving up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says you 're buying things for people and they everybody 's therefore I think that tokeny things are the best . |
| 26 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 27 | He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking . |
| 28 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 29 | She improvised wildly and skilfully , dabbing at her eyes while she spoke with a rather grubby handkerchief . |
| 30 | Wearing red overalls , the princess laughed and chatted to other drivers while she waited her turn . |