Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Yet the table still looked bare , and suddenly she knew it needed flowers .
2 Suddenly she realized she had n't put it out properly and said , ‘ Excuse me , Mr Tiller , I think I 'm on fire . '
3 Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months .
4 Only she said she had brought me here under false pretences and she chose to make amends this way . ’
5 Apparently she thought she knew what it was , for she smiled again and said huskily , ‘ What is it , Jacques ? ’
6 Perhaps she knew we had proof of her treachery , but there is no need for her to fear our vengeance . ’
7 Perhaps she knew he wanted a son , perhaps she said her first marriage broke up because her first husband found out he was n't the father . ’
8 Perhaps she thought he meant she smelled unpleasant to him .
9 " Perhaps she wishes she had n't said that . "
10 So she goes what did you say ?
11 As she did so she realised she did not yet know the name of their unexpected guest .
12 So she said you did n't .
13 bring her plate home so she said she said that she do n't know if she 'll make it or even if she 'll be home for christmas so erm I said oh well !
14 So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat !
15 I 've , I 've never ever known him to iron anything ever since I 've been you know , little , I 've never seen him iron anything but me mum was in fits because he 'd even ironed the socks so she said she did n't have the heart to tell him that she does n't usually bother with the ruddy socks , but er the thought was there was n't it ?
16 I would have thought if she would have sat in the chair , I mean well she could n't go the week aha I do n't young enough yeah , about a month ago she just peed of somewhere and some , I do n't know , she 's alright , I said yes she 'll be alright , I said I 'm going to start cooking so she said I got to take these Heather , I said well they 'll travel better in there , your father said you know Jane he said if you 'd given her a hand
17 So she said I took the fitness test .
18 so she said I thought to myself when I went in I hope the two hundred pound one 's mine , Joe 'll go mad if it 's over four hundred !
19 so she said I said to her how much the old front
20 So she thought she knew the sector , and set her favourite ideologue , Sir Keith ( now Lord ) Joseph to give the universities a brisk , introductory course in Thatcherite economics .
21 So she thought he did n't know any history , did she ?
22 But he had been drinking , and deep inside she knew he had been partly to blame .
23 Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece
24 Somehow she wished he had not said that .
25 Guiltily she wished she 'd admitted to her previous engagement .
26 But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them .
27 Still she wished someone had written to her .
28 She wished with all her heart that she could turn around and go back , depart from this unprepossessing , even frightening place before ever she discovered what awaited her within its mouldering walls .
29 This girl , Anne , yesterday she said she clipped the kerb and and said as long as erm you have another
30 The closer she came to meeting Vitor d'Arcos again , the more her adrenalin surged and the more she wished there had been something to prevent her attendance .
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