Example sentences of "[coord] she [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now of course that , it is the defendant 's case I anticipate , erm is er , although there 's nothing specific in the rule about it , is said to be er only a possibility for a plaintiff if the plaintiff when they sell , he or she served the notice to complete is in a position to be able to complete himself and here . |
| 2 | Similarly , in order for occupation of land to amount to a tenancy , the courts have held that the claimant must show that he or she had the right to , and did , exclude the landlord . |
| 3 | She left one out as both she and the baby dozed ; or she placed the baby on the table and lifted a breast to its mouth . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 5 | In their anomalous behaviour electric arcs seemed to defy Ohm 's Law and she discovered the cause of this . |
| 6 | When she first developed her symptoms the doctors had told her it was ‘ neuritis ’ , and she discovered the diagnosis herself by picking up a magazine article in a cafe . |
| 7 | She looked between his legs , but all was shadow there until he turned towards her and she saw the snake 's head loom . |
| 8 | The blood crust cracked , and she saw the night sky . |
| 9 | Briefly his gaze rested on Rachel and she saw the flicker of uncertainty in his eyes but there was no time for questions . |
| 10 | She saw her aloneness , now loneliness , and she saw the vista of age , which she had never contemplated before . |
| 11 | When he came to the part about the clip he glanced up , and she saw the flare of excitement in his silvery-green eyes before they dropped once again to the page . |
| 12 | It certainly brought the door banging open ; and she was still screaming when his body was lifted from her and she saw the poker coming down towards his head . |
| 13 | He turned from the window , and she saw the mask was back in place . |
| 14 | Her defiance gave her the courage to lift her eyes to his for the first time , and she saw the surprise and sudden uncertainty that flashed across them . |
| 15 | Then she remembered someone taking off her nightgown , and a brisk woman in a white starched uniform saying something about going into the theatre — and she saw the doctor again , talking earnestly to a man in a long white gown who was pulling on a pair of rubber gloves … . |
| 16 | He smiled , and she saw the gleam of perfect white teeth . |
| 17 | She contrasted her experience of school physics with university physics , and she saw the distinction as a quantitative/qualitative one . |
| 18 | A mask seemed to fall away from his face , and she saw the torment in his eyes . |
| 19 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 20 | He turned , and she saw the approval in his face . |
| 21 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 22 | The line drawing faded , and she saw the colours as well as the warmths . |
| 23 | His lips parted a little , and she rubbed the pad of her index finger over the edge of his bottom teeth . |
| 24 | He dropped his hand from her arm and she rubbed the spot resentfully . |
| 25 | Terry Sangwin , the nurse manager for the medical unit , thought staff in the hospital still needed much more information about what would happen , and she feared the planners did n't realise the impact community care might have on acute hospitals . |
| 26 | Standing right on top of her by now , he was preventing her from walking out unless she actually brought herself to push past him , and she feared the follow-up to their slightest physical contact . |
| 27 | My amateur bouillabaisse pleased her and she recalled the docks at Marseilles . |
| 28 | This afternoon , however , she was too much perturbed in her mind to trouble about such things , and she rounded the corner at a run which would have spelt disaster had anyone been coming in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 30 | The car slid neatly into its slot , and she cut the engine and opened her door . |