Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prejudice against saying or writing she generically is extremely strong , and the habit of saying he deeply ingrained . |
| 2 | Was her decision to play music on a full-time basis thought out — or did she just happen into it ? |
| 3 | Was there any more or did she just give you these ? |
| 4 | Was she being stupid on purpose , or did she really mean it , Mungo wondered ? |
| 5 | Was it imagination , or did she really sound colder towards him ? |
| 6 | ‘ Does she ask who it is first or does she just use it as soon as she hears a man 's voice ? ’ |
| 7 | Or does she still go ? |
| 8 | But can she allow herself to get in touch with that needy infant inside her adult self , or does she always have to be the carer , the non-greedy adult , leaving Bob Halton to express all the emotional greed for them both ? |
| 9 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 10 | Had he singled her out or had she simply been the unfortunate rider nearest to him ? |
| 11 | Was she a rare and special creature , some fabulous beauty , of whom Jeopardy had been fond , or had she simply been a vessel for his seed ? |
| 12 | Had he emphasised the ‘ you ’ , implying that she was n't worth lying to , or had she simply imagined the insult ? |
| 13 | Had her mind gone , or had she really heard that tormented note in his voice ? |
| 14 | Or had she perhaps been pecked to death ? |
| 15 | Or had she only been cold because she 'd known of her husband 's friendship with a beautiful young Irish girl ? |
| 16 | At no time , not even vaguely , had such a notion occurred to her , nor did she even think that he was not as other men . |
| 17 | Nor had she any means of forming an independent judgment even if she had desired to do so . |
| 18 | Nor had she ever seen her mother expose her breasts or even legs , at home . |
| 19 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 20 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 21 | Until the 1982 health service dispute , she 'd never been involved in a trade union , nor had she ever gone to any meetings about anything . |
| 22 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 23 | She was not frigid , but nor had she ever been a slave to purely carnal temptations ; because she had always placed a higher value on mental and emotional stimulation than on physical . |
| 24 | The Queen of the Night , in her representation with the creatures of the night , is not at their mercy , nor does she completely civilize and tame their natures . |
| 25 | Charlotte heard the front door close and realized she alone was watching as the white halo of the headlamps traced his progress along the drive . |
| 26 | And has she ever stripped for the cameras ? |
| 27 | Robyn summoned up every ounce of strength and hate and found she still did n't have enough to cope with Luke 's overwhelming anger and her migraine all at the same time . |
| 28 | What was even more worrying was that she had never cried and even when he remonstrated with her and told her bluntly that their two children were dead and buried she just smiled and turned away . |
| 29 | The time had come and Ruth stood up , so nervous and overwrought she nearly dragged the damask tablecloth with her . |
| 30 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |