Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it keeps no record of wrongs or times she has told him to wipe his feet . |
| 2 | Keep in touch if your child watches without you ; take note of any new phrases or ideas she has , and remember they may have come from television . |
| 3 | I 've always wanted an en suite bathroom , she would say to visitors , to her friends on the phone , to , he would n't be surprised , tradesmen on the doorstep or strangers she accosted in the street . |
| 4 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Winnie , who for several years ran the old Slazenger Club Championships , continued to repay the joy and rewards she enjoyed from tennis by passing on her knowledge and experience to later generations of British juniors . |
| 6 | The bath and basin were pink and there were bottles and jars of bath salts and essences she 'd never even heard of . |
| 7 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 8 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 9 | Discovering strength and skills she had n't known she possessed , Polly sailed Seawitch away from the wave-lashed rocky coast and out into the safety of deeper water . |
| 10 | There was something in his face and eyes she did not like — a softness that seemed almost like sympathy . |
| 11 | Neither do feelings of ‘ having too much to get through ’ relate to the number of children the housewife has , or to the kind of aids and amenities she possesses . |
| 12 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 13 | What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year . |
| 14 | She planted the fruit trees and bushes she had always wanted , made her own bread , and experimented with such things as parsley jelly and mint tea , all to her heart 's content . |
| 15 | On Tuesdays and Thursdays she looked after Patrick Robinson , the son of an American oil executive , work which she ‘ adored ’ . |
| 16 | For a start when she was talking about fish and chips she said well we 'll pop along in the car and get them from Moor Road cos they have nice er chips there but then , being as Tony had had a drink he would n't drive so |
| 17 | A man whose actions and motives she had plenty of cause to doubt . |
| 18 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 19 | Nora enjoyed the undercurrents and tensions she felt in the light-seeming chatter all around . |
| 20 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 21 | There were great pots of food steaming on the stove and dishes piled with fruit on the sideboard — pineapples , bananas , strange plum-looking fruit , and fruits she did n't know the names of . |
| 22 | It was madness , yes — a crazy , upside-down response to her turbulent emotions earlier , but her logical mind was slowly disintegrating under the wealth of feelings and emotions she 'd tried to keep hidden for so long . |
| 23 | Faded photographs , familiar as wallpaper , looked down upon us ; and water-colours she had painted when a girl holidaying in Switzerland . |
| 24 | From now on the windows she polished , the floors she swept , the cups and saucers and plates she washed would not be her own . |
| 25 | The penguin who had said the word warm shook her head sadly , and tho' the young penguin pestered her for days and days she heard no more about it . |
| 26 | Yet the favours and appointments she showered on him must surely have given Bothwell reason to assume that he could interpret her secret wishes . |
| 27 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 28 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 29 | She remembered the lover made up out of books and poems she had dreamed of all summer ; he crumpled like the paper he was made of before this insolent , off-hand , terrifying maleness , filling the room with its reek . |
| 30 | In a civil action at Wick Sheriff Court , Surria Amin is suing her brother-in-law , Mohammed Hafeez , for the return of money and jewels she says she gave him for safe-keeping pending settlement of her husband 's estate . |