Example sentences of "[coord] she [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | From experience and familiarity he or she builds up a mental pictorial encyclopaedia based on study of museum collections , information from archaeological research and accumulated knowledge from books and papers describing objects of particular periods and cultures . |
2 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
3 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
4 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |
5 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
6 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
7 | And she drove out the image and her own overwhelming feeling of terrible loss , by concentrating her mind desperately on what Gazzer was saying . |
8 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
9 | Pempie is terrifically keen on auspicious signs , and she cheered up no end the day after the exterminator , because she drew a winning ticket in the village raffle . |
10 | I tapped on the glass , and she wound down the window . |
11 | In a despairing sweep her gaze ran over the dress , and she bit back a groan . |
12 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
13 | Her grey eyes widened , and she bit back an involuntary exclamation . |
14 | The warmth in his voice reached out to her , thawing the numb , frozen parts deep inside , and she choked back a sob . |
15 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
16 | And she sent off a turtle-dove to ask help from the old marshwife . |
17 | Like that right , and she walked down the bus and this , the policeman said to the bus driver , oh you 'll have to hang on a wee minute because I have to speak to this woman here . |
18 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
19 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
20 | The bang came again but softer , and she made out the squeak of rusty hinges against the din of the stormy night . |
21 | She felt rage flood through her and she fought down the impulse to scream — that was just what he was waiting for . |
22 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
23 | Her husband was a very good tenor , the Baron , he sang , and she wrote out the parts for piano , and various other instruments . |
24 | Bina who never dreamed — Bina whose moods they all dismissed as ‘ adolescence ’ — Bina who they 'd trained not to let on what she really felt , who did n't even know what she did feel — that same Bina had a dream each night , and she wrote down every single word of it so that it would tell her how to be different , be real , really be . |
25 | He nodded and she tapped out the number . |
26 | He nodded and she tapped out the Sheldrake practice number . |
27 | Yes we used to go to see her , and she came up a couple of times . |
28 | Into the shadows of the room came the beam of a powerful flashlight , and she flung up a hand to shield her eyes from its glare . |
29 | He took a hasty pace towards her , and she flung out a hand . |
30 | A board creaked beneath her feet and she sucked in a startled breath . |