Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] she [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 2 | She wished she could confide in Ella , but it was far too risky and she knew she would feel worse if anyone in the house knew about the baby . |
| 3 | It was risky and she knew it . |
| 4 | Before : Rebecca 's long , one-length hair is quite coarse and she feels it looks dull and boring . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a girl in here the other day with an exchange student from France , ’ said David 's wife Esther , ‘ She did n't know what mushy peas were so we gave her some and she hated them ! |
| 6 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 7 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 8 | And then suddenly he did stop and she was all sticky and messy and she thought he would speak to her now and comfort her or beg her in his whisper to kiss him , as he had done under the bridge the other nights they 'd met . |
| 9 | Because one of the typewriters is broken and she blamed it on me . |
| 10 | Mind her head on that wheel cos it 's got some if she gets it her hair wo n't she ? |
| 11 | Even at that early stage in her career , Roddick knew she was different and she cultivated it . |
| 12 | She does this because she feels it to be her duty to God and it makes her happy helping these people . |
| 13 | She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe . |
| 14 | She sipped absently , so desperate to remember who she was and how she came to be here that the mug was empty before she realised it . |
| 15 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 16 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 17 | I must have looked embarrassed when she handed it over because they both turned their backs while I slipped my old dress off and slipped the new one on . |
| 18 | I am a 39-year-old man weighing 11 stone and I was trying to cuddle my nine year old when she picked me up and threw me across the room . |
| 19 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 20 | She did n't want to be the one to do that although she knew it was her duty . |
| 21 | Her own awareness of him was so strong that she felt she could have tracked him anywhere , just by the dizzying sensation of his presence . |
| 22 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 23 | Dora 's appointment is n't till eleven so she says she is n't in a hurry . |
| 24 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 25 | Who could the woman be , who admired him so much that she sent him a valentine ? |
| 26 | Perhaps it was because she liked Brown Owl so much that she wanted her to marry someone rather special and wonderful . |
| 27 | Lee suddenly felt so sad that she thought she would never move again . |
| 28 | Her pregnancy had been uncomfortable and she feared she might not carry , but here it was - a girl for Bruce . |
| 29 | She could n't finish because that would be pushy if she admitted she expected him to ask her to stay with him as he had done once before . |
| 30 | The Chief Education Officer sorry Director also contain these warnings in her introduction , she reminded us that we would have to discharge our responsibilities in the years to come , she reminded us that decisions are never easy and she reminded us that we need to show that we are capable of firm managerial action . |