Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something in his face and eyes she did not like — a softness that seemed almost like sympathy . |
| 2 | Like Mr Evans 's eyes , Carrie thought , but apart from her eyes she did n't look in the least like a shopkeeper 's sister . |
| 3 | Her mind sheered away from images she did n't want to dwell on . |
| 4 | After all , six weeks , there could be only a shadow of " it baby " , " embryo " were words she did n't speak , even to herself . |
| 5 | The apothecary was bending over her , mumbling words she did n't understand . |
| 6 | Restaurants she did n't mind , but in pubs she always felt too much at the mercy of predatory men . |
| 7 | In three short months she did n't need the medication she had been dependent on for years . |
| 8 | There were great pots of food steaming on the stove and dishes piled with fruit on the sideboard — pineapples , bananas , strange plum-looking fruit , and fruits she did n't know the names of . |
| 9 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 10 | Fighting the agony in her shoulder and the itch in the fingers she did n't have any more , she pulled herself towards the console . |
| 11 | Above all , however , de Gaulle was worried that under the terms of the Treaty of Rome , the EEC was supposed , in January 1966 , to take more of its decisions by majority votes , which could force France to accept policies she did not want . |
| 12 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
| 13 | Incongruously , ridiculously , here in this Underground station , with musicians she did not know , playing to an unknown , only occasionally apprecia-tive and ever-shifting audience , she was in her own element . |
| 14 | Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid . |
| 15 | At times she did n't seem to know it herself . |
| 16 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |
| 17 | She thought of Eileen as ‘ That one ’ , though these days she did n't dare say so . |
| 18 | Still the deluge , the patter , the trickle of endless blue facts in a world whose colours she did n't understand . |
| 19 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 20 | He cracked jokes she did n't think were very funny . |
| 21 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 22 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 23 | It was the result of being determined not to be manoeuvred into things she did n't want to do , and yet she most certainly did n't want to do this . |
| 24 | She was so good , yet there were so many things she did n't do which I would have thought she would have . |
| 25 | Whispering about people when they had left the room was one of the naughty things she did n't do . |
| 26 | Robin and Jenny both told her she shut her eyes to things she did n't like . |
| 27 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 28 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 29 | She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family . |
| 30 | There were bowls of salad , vegetables , sauces and pickles , and things she did not recognize . |