Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , she goes up your school now with her little girl . |
| 2 | She flies around her wood all night . |
| 3 | So she sits out her turn . |
| 4 | She lives off his wages . ’ |
| 5 | From here on in she holds up her chin , flares her nostrils and treats us unreservedly with the sheer contempt that we deserve . |
| 6 | She holds out her flute . |
| 7 | AS another week begins , every working mum today has an extra worry on her mind as she drops off her children at the childminder 's or leaves them with a nanny . |
| 8 | When an insect comes near , she straightens out her legs and holds the net above her head and so entraps it . |
| 9 | But she tones down her performance as the show progresses and one is eventually won over . |
| 10 | Acting upon information received while sleeping , she draws up her invincible battle plans , foils the conspiracies of assassins , learns of the infidelities and corruptions for which she blackmails both her loyalists ( to ensure their support ) and her opponents ( to ensure theirs ) . |
| 11 | But she quotes approvingly our television critic , Richard Last , a month or so back : ‘ Melvyn Bragg 's controversial A Time to Dance ( BBC1 ) ended on a believably tender note , suggesting that it was his producer or director , rather than the author , who miscalculated the grossness of earlier episodes . ’ |
| 12 | When she fills up my glass with water — for there is not always wine — it is a protective and consoling gesture . |
| 13 | A carer , worn out by the unending demands of her task , shakes her mother when she spits out her tablets . |
| 14 | Rachel bites her lip , and frowns at me as she hands over her chit . |
| 15 | The school has refused to make any comment on the appointment of the new headmistress until she takes up her duties in August . |
| 16 | As a person in her own right she takes up her destiny . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't be too long , ’ she calls over her shoulder . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's my problem , ’ she tosses over her shoulder , and heads for the door , with Anya — spaniel or Rottweiler ? — at her heels . |
| 19 | She shrugs off her dressing-gown and slips into the little single bed beside me , warm and naked and already wet . |
| 20 | She pulls off her t-shirt , she is safe while he is swimming out to the centre , she slips out of the rest of her clothes , kicks off the espadrilles , and running along the boards dives in . |
| 21 | Relieved because she has been afraid that somehow it would have disappeared , she pulls out her key , but the driver 's door is unlocked . |
| 22 | Then she picks up her cup and blows on it . |
| 23 | She picks up his hand and kisses the knuckles . |
| 24 | I stroke her hair and burble fine words , while she sobs out her questions and accusations . |
| 25 | Unbuttoning her coat , and unwinding her scarf , she reads over his shoulder : ‘ Day of Action … protest against cuts … erosion of salaries … pickets will be mounted at every entrance to the University … volunteers should give their names to Departmental representatives … other members are asked to stay away from the campus on the Day of Action . ’ |
| 26 | she sets out her documents . |
| 27 | She sets out her position in detail in her book Whatever Happened To Sex ? ( 1977 ) , and repeats it in full in A Most Dangerous Woman ? ( 1982 ) in her own defence . |
| 28 | She opens her eyes , all is white , snow-white , she can not see , but she puts up her hands to stop falling down , still the roll and pitch goes on , she 's thrown about and her head bursts into stars against the whiteness till all at once he splits open and there 's no more night blindness nor blind whiteness neither , but the good hot yellow sun up above . |
| 29 | And in her musings , she wrings out her heart along with her dishcloth , pouring out a torrent of disillusionments and dreams . |
| 30 | The common talk is that the Official Custodian manages £125bn of charity money and as she winds up her role the error is to assume that this should fall into the fund managers ' laps . |