Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was born in Aberdeen and was a student at the city 's university where she gained her MA in 1969 . |
| 2 | Actuality of warden describing the snake followed by interview where she sez it 's the first time she'stouched a grass snake and slow worms . |
| 3 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 4 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 5 | Panic-struck once she saw her mistake she immediately confronted Bernard with the truth , apologized and offered her resignation . |
| 6 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 12 | It was as a pioneer woman journalist that she earned her most lasting renown , sometimes using the pseudonym ‘ Filomena ’ . |
| 13 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 14 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 15 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 16 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 17 | No sooner were the words out of her mouth than she regretted them . |
| 18 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 19 | Fred cut into the pieces of meat with a vengeance , fighting the urge to shake the chattering Bessie Chandler by the scruff of her neck until she snuffed it . |
| 20 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 21 | Er or shall I leave her a piece up there and give her her tea cos she knows it 's ready ? |
| 22 | He moved his mouth to her neck and she felt his tongue tantalising her skin . |
| 23 | His mouth came gently to her neck and she gave herself again to the lion . |
| 24 | Robbie had expected the dog to pursue them , but instead there was a splash and she realised he had gone into the water . |
| 25 | He said nothing but Maggie saw the black brows rise in mockery and she reassessed her conclusions . |
| 26 | Most of them had never been before and was scared , she got just a little bit of water in her mouth and she thought she was drowning but instead of saying drowning she said to me , ‘ I drownded ’ . |
| 27 | Some water dripped from the tip of her nose into her mouth and she wiped it away with one swift movement . |
| 28 | He kissed her on the mouth and she tasted herself on his lips . |
| 29 | She points to the newcomer and explains , " I met this woman at the council housing department and she said I could stay with her . " |
| 30 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |