Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [noun sg] she " in BNC.

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1 My mother forwarded it me the day she received it .
2 I do n't know why she spoke to me , what was special about me , why she did n't ignore me the way she ignored everyone else .
3 She gave me the tip she 'd put aside for the waitress and then raided her purse again to replace it .
4 where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones
5 ‘ Why she seemed to dislike me the moment she set eyes on me .
6 As far as I am concerned , she was dead to me the moment she walked out the door . ’
7 Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning .
8 I can show you the memorandum she gave me . ’
9 And she said Geoff kept saying to her oh I would n't move from where you are , you know you got your place lovely i if you the reason she moved was cos she wanted Tony to get the breakfast round What was said that 's what Val said .
10 Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt .
11 Two days later the Marquis ' wife , a good woman , who has learned with horror something of what has happened , comes to Manette , hoping to be able to contact through him the sister she knows to survive from the murdered family , and to help her by way of making some atonement for her husband 's and her brother-in-law 's evil behaviour ; Manette can give her no information , however .
12 She had fallen in love with him the minute she saw him , and she had known it , shied away from it , fought it , resisted , resisted , resisted … but love could n't be resisted forever .
13 He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth .
14 And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him .
15 Matthew Prescott was a nice man , even though she could not imagine ever feeling about him the way she did — had — about Cameron .
16 And André was in his element , enjoying the buzzing atmosphere around him the way she had used to at one point in time .
17 But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’
18 She walked across to Georg and looked at him the way she looked at Gesner .
19 ‘ You mean her telling him the way she did ? ’
20 Mary showed him the work she had done in the garden , and they talked as they cut and cleared .
21 As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head .
22 She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day .
23 Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm .
24 I do n't pay them too much attention cos I 'm busy , but I think Marie shows him the letter she got this morning .
25 Yeah , but when I took her the toilet she wanted to go toilet
26 I took her the toilet she wanted to wash her face .
27 ‘ But Dr Dennes and Dr Van Lare refused to give her the treatment she was entitled to . ’
28 There are , however , clear attempts to make us giggle , like when the Swamp Thing ( Dick Durock ) conceives a passion for Heather Locklear 's leading lady but tells her that he ca n't give her the love she wants because he 's a plant .
29 ‘ She was bent on making mischief because I would n't do her the favour she wanted , and she bloody well succeeded , did n't she ? ’
30 And that today Jean still resorts to cutting herself , reflects her basic lack of self-esteem , as well as her need to try to ‘ reach ’ someone who will be able to give her the help she so desperately needs .
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