Example sentences of "[vb past] she the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I promised her the best view of Florence from here , Mama , ’ he said over his shoulder as he wrestled with the catch . |
| 2 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 3 | The maids found her the next morning hunched up in the laundry cupboard on the landing , dozing lightly . |
| 4 | Donna joined him and he found her the shortest ones , saying , ‘ You have the short ones . |
| 5 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 6 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 7 | When a care worker later approached her the 88 year old pleaded : ’ Do n't hit me . ’ |
| 8 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 9 | Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic . |
| 10 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 11 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 12 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 13 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 14 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 15 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 16 | Then Tess went up to her mother , put her head on Joan 's shoulder , and told her the whole story . |
| 17 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 18 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 19 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 20 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 21 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 22 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 23 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 24 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 25 | Anne showed her the black bottle . |
| 26 | Bec , the girl with a badger 's furry snout and soft dark eyes , showed her the great sculleries where they all took turns to prepare the food . |
| 27 | Beneath the shirt , the mirror showed her the small fine flowers of her delicate bra could be seen . |
| 28 | He showed her the little holes in the chin guard , and reluctantly she tried it again . |
| 29 | ‘ Look at this , ’ he said to Cleo , and handed her the delicate instrument , which was a web of vanes and strings . |
| 30 | The bus took a very long and roundabout route to Linby , through a dozen tiny villages and hamlets , but Cheryl thought the journey was worth it when Jessica handed her the promised signalling flags . |