Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One nurse described how she always knocks at the door of a private room if there is a terminally ill patient in case she should catch them crying . |
| 2 | She stood motionless , wondering what he was about to do , and as he moved closer she suddenly had the ridiculous impression he was going to kiss her . |
| 3 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |
| 4 | As she came up she distinctly heard him say , ‘ Now , what else do we need ? ’ |
| 5 | WHILE she was out of the room , I laid a selection of photos of people and places on the floor and as soon as she came back she immediately pointed out two men . |
| 6 | For a moment , as she had stood there , Davide noted how she truly recalled the virgin martyrs he had dreamed of , with her Easter cake as emblem , like the twin mound of her breasts St Agatha bears on a dish in heaven . |
| 7 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 8 | He just about could do , because as it turned out she only took a percentage , unlike the other two who got through the lot , but then Egan had more to leave hidden than Place . |
| 9 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it meant that there was n't enough for the consultant to do to keep him out of her way , and every time she turned round she almost fell over him . |
| 11 | But last week a court heard how she also ran three kinky health studios . |
| 12 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 13 | As she grew up she often visited relations in Ireland and she developed a lifelong romantic passion for that country , originating in her childhood adoration of Burgage . |
| 14 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 15 | Why did n't she just leave , Charlie was used to it . |
| 16 | I said I did n't think her opinion was worth very much : if that was the opinion she had of her husband then naturally he preferred someone who admired , loved , trusted and desired him , and why did n't she just go away ? |
| 17 | It would be easy enough to ask him straight if there was any truth in it , so why did n't she just come on out and ask ? |
| 18 | erm she 's got a family Margaret , she said she wo n't go there any more she I , I do n't know whether that er Jean does so Did n't she just cotton on quickly , she said do you know that , I said why do I want anybody wandering in my house and my kitchen , I said it 's a bit like it 's clean , why should I have somebody sort of , well I mean just because I 'm doing cooking , she said you would n't stop fancy one , you never know , she said well unless you want to stop at the , please do n't , you 'll let me still have your jam wo n't you ? |
| 19 | Julia felt nothing for that child , she did n't like her , she did n't hate her , I mean she , she did n't she just felt nothing cos that 's precisely what she told me , that 's her words , not mine , you know and I find then , that , she should n't be a childminder |
| 20 | Did n't she even want time to think things over ? |
| 21 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 22 | She put another couple of quid in did n't she now . |
| 23 | Veronica came up did n't she yesterday to see where her er has Sally got her stuff please . |
| 24 | Did n't she always ? |
| 25 | He remembered when she once had to beg him to come down . |
| 26 | But , you know , in those months we had together she really tried to make up . |
| 27 | But friends said yesterday she now felt she owed Wyman no further loyalty . |
| 28 | Had n't she just come on to two guys in two days ? |
| 29 | Had n't she just described the truly religious man , someone in the world but not of it ? |
| 30 | And Mrs McMahon , who naturally had n't seen it because had n't she just this minute arrived back from the village and was n't the dress still in its bag , looked up at the three hovering on the stairs as though it were a divine deliverance , mumbled vaguely about a headache coming on , and thankfully abandoned her responsibilities to whoever was willing to take them on . |