Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to go to the Garfield Centre , where she taught one day a week , to see the inmates perform their Christmas entertainment . |
| 2 | Their neighbour , the writer Julia Strachey , found them " congenial souls and seeing them does cheer one up " , although she recalled one evening when Eliot suddenly emerged in a dressing gown apparently " utterly distraught and Strindbergian , with his at-all-times remarkable manner accentuated into something ghostly and weird . |
| 3 | There was an expression in his blue eyes that she did not completely understand , ant so she lifted one eyebrow . |
| 4 | One person is ‘ it ’ — possibly the birthday girl — and swims around until she touches one of the other children . |
| 5 | The pathetic , skinny dog was scratching around the dustbin searching for the slightest bit of food , until she took one look at me and shot off with her tail between her legs . |
| 6 | He upset Mary further by saying he thought Adam 's sister Bridget very attractive and it would be an inducement to him if she became one of the members . |
| 7 | She was so full , so tight with sad happiness , she felt she would burst if she ate one more drop scone . |
| 8 | Either what woman having ten pieces of silver , if she lose one piece , doth not light a candle , and sweep the house , and seek diligently till she find it ? |
| 9 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 10 | I really ca and maybe if she eats one or two meals over the weekend , it 'll he might not |
| 11 | If she had one wish in life it would be that she could climb trees . |
| 12 | Make it clear , too , that she can only have the toy if she gives one of hers in exchange . |
| 13 | When we first became friends in our early teens I 'd asked her if she fancied one of the young men in the village . |
| 14 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 15 | She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas . |
| 16 | sick before because she ate one of the lads did n't fancy theirs . |
| 17 | There followed a torrent of Greek , of which Lindsey understood only the word ‘ Niall ’ , before she tucked one slender hand through his arm . |
| 18 | Obligingly Merrill moved out of their way , but not before she heard one of them say , ‘ We 'd better get this right , and quickly , but no cutting corners . |
| 19 | Joyce was to meet her and work with her again before she became one of the defendants in the trials of 1945 . |
| 20 | She even survived the appraising looks of the women and smiled when she heard one of them say after she had passed , ‘ What beautiful English skin . ’ |
| 21 | Isabel could have bitten her tongue when she saw one corner of fitzAlan 's mouth kick up . |
| 22 | But , when she saw one of the tough , huge policemen casting his eyes up to the ceiling in exasperation , she hurriedly continued her story . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , but you do n't want to … ’ she began to deny , but her voice faded when she saw one eyebrow ascend — as if it was unheard-of for anyone to tell him what he wanted or did not want to do . |
| 24 | She broke off when she saw one of his eyebrows ascend aloft . |
| 25 | Nanny was humming softly to herself when she took one of the big tins from the shelf to make a meal of corned-beef slices and wedges of onion fried in batter . |
| 26 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 27 | She 'd rifled through the contents of her wardrobe twice , groaning disgustedly as she discounted one garment after another . |
| 28 | Still — she could n't help but give a little chuckle as she watched one small boy in calipers crossing the dance floor at an amazingly fast clip , hotly pursued by a red-faced Candy — the children had somehow managed to drag her out of the fog of misery that had enveloped her with Adam 's leaving . |
| 29 | He shook his head , leaning back slightly , watching as she drew one shapely leg up beneath her on the chair . |
| 30 | But Garvey had his back to Izzie and it seemed she might escape unseen , as she set one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder to Heaven . |