Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nicklaus , sensing that she had something on her mind , offered an encouraging , ‘ Do n't be afraid to speak up ! ’ |
| 32 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 33 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 34 | And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face . |
| 35 | ( Not that she had anything against Greenpeace . |
| 36 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 37 | Not that she had anything against him . |
| 38 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 39 | Tallis was idly aware that she had none of these organs left . |
| 40 | Iraq would be much more justified to say that she spent lots of money on military equipment so that she could invade other countries like Iran to gain more land . |
| 41 | He could tell by the look on her face that she counted herself among them . |
| 42 | Presumably not : but it would be a very bold man , a Karl Marx indeed who would assert that , for each and every woman and always , housework is her spontaneous activity , that it is the satisfaction of a need ; or that she fulfils herself in it ; or that through it she develops freely a physical and mental energy and will not be physically exhausted and mentally debased . |
| 43 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 44 | Thank goodness for Iris , thought Melissa as she plodded wearily up to bed , for insisting that she cover herself by reporting Lou 's visit . |
| 45 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 46 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 47 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 48 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 49 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 50 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 51 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 52 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 53 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
| 54 | Not that she knew anything about washing . |
| 55 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 56 | But his tone left them in no doubt as to his feelings as he grunted , ‘ I suggested to your fiancée , ’ he uttered the noun with contempt , ‘ that she release you from this ridiculous arrangement . |
| 57 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 58 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 59 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 60 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |