Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] all " in BNC.

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1 to Steve on t' phone , I says , I helped her fill all the forms in , you do n't mind do you ?
2 However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower .
3 Rachel decided she needed all the good luck she could get .
4 She let Herbert know , and he cabled her to cancel all other arrangements and catch the next ship back .
5 He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred .
6 When they were together , she felt in charge ; and the feeling made her forget all that had brought her to this .
7 He assiduously avoided her glance all through dinner , and as soon as the coffee was served he got to his feet .
8 Eva , who felt she owed all she was , and had achieved , to her mother did not take a great deal of convincing .
9 She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman .
10 He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner .
11 He felt her shaking all the way through her bones and into his .
12 But what woman could have lured Angela Brickell and persuaded her to take all her clothes off in the middle of a wood ? ’
13 Annie Garnett had no formal training in design , but her natural ability , love of flowers and colour enabled her to design all the textiles produced at The Spinnery .
14 In fact , did she know all the details of his blackmailing activities or was she just cashing in as much as possible ?
15 Where did she get all this from ?
16 My mother she cried oh she did she cried all night .
17 Her skin was a pale olive colour but absolutely clear and her magnificent eyes gave her face all the definition it needed .
18 ‘ She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker .
19 Said she wants all of that in .
20 Said she wants all of that .
21 Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made .
22 The depredations of this form of Macarthyism/Librarianship were severe , although not as bad as at another library in the borough where the Greenhamism of the librarian in charge compelled her to withdraw all the books on the subject of war .
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