Example sentences of "[coord] she [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And every human being has the right to fail ; it is what he or she makes of that failure which counts . |
| 2 | I looked at the wife and she died of fright . |
| 3 | And she died of a cancer and er so did me father , and probably so shall I , but if a cancer do n't kill me summat else will . |
| 4 | she was doing so well in the church and she died of cancer . |
| 5 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 6 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 7 | The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers . |
| 8 | And she thought of the Italian 's hand inside her stocking . |
| 9 | And she thought of Walter Ash . |
| 10 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 11 | " I see , " said Clara , descending : and she thought of the square flat patch that extended beyond her mother 's house at home , and of the grudgingly mown grass , and the dutifully weeded herbaceous borders , and the complaints about neighbouring cats and dogs that would come and dig in the unrewarding earth . |
| 12 | And she thought of her tiny incursion into that life . |
| 13 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 14 | It was impossible not to notice how aroused he had become , and she thought of all the women who would envy her for being in this situation . |
| 15 | She remembered the years of forethought and carefulness ( methods described by Lal , always her sage experienced friend ) , and she thought of them without regret . |
| 16 | And she thought of him relaxed , as he had been on the beach , his incredible body beside hers as they ran down to the sea , his face laughing and his hair untidy … |
| 17 | The weather forecast on Sunday was for rain , and she thought of him riding his bike back down the motorway in poor conditions and had to revive her anger to stop from worrying herself sick over him . |
| 18 | and she dreams of stars |
| 19 | And she said of the cash : ‘ Perhaps Chris has started to contribute to the upkeep of his child . ’ |
| 20 | At that time Clare , who was a British Horse Society riding instructor , was teaching freelance , and she heard of a 15hh palomino called Herbie who was being offered on loan . |
| 21 | Mrs Olive Davis , 47 , was walking home with her husband , Joe , 59 , when they saw the crash and she spoke of how Mr Swales died in her arms . |
| 22 | ‘ And she spoke of the unicorn being in the forest , but that , I think , was by accident . |
| 23 | Her father died when she was young and she spoke of one brother . |
| 24 | Beneath an open , high-necked , long-sleeved cotton dressing gown , she was wearing a simple white cotton nightdress , which stuck to her still damp body , and she smelt of soap and steam . |
| 25 | Her thoughts seemed slow and she complained of lack of energy and difficulty in staying asleep at night . |
| 26 | She 's wearing a yellow paisley dress and she smells of flour . |
| 27 | But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible . |
| 28 | There were five years between them , but she thought of him as older . |
| 29 | Talking to strangers might be unwise , but she thought of the ghastly welcome awaiting the tired , unsuspecting traveller , and felt sorry for him . |
| 30 | But she thought of the back the garden door |