Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ‘ Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ’ . |
| 2 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 3 | Drew had gone with her to the hospital , where she had undergone a full medical check . |
| 4 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 5 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 6 | She , however , is not changed sufficiently to love George , although she does feel a strong emotional tug towards him . |
| 7 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 8 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 9 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 10 | He was such a dear old thing , although she had heard a rumour about him and Sylvia . |
| 11 | Fortunately , she was a feminist and seldom asked for extra money , since she would consider that degrading , although she had accepted a house and school fees . |
| 12 | Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people . |
| 13 | Although she had mentioned a man named Clive . |
| 14 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 15 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 16 | cos bread goes , although she 's got a freezer and a washing machine and everything at the villa , so she 's , she sold her house in Jersey and they 're gon na do the villa up because they , they 've sold it Christmas did n't they ? |
| 17 | Although she refused to declare a state of emergency , loyal forces were placed on full alert and , at the government 's request , the House of Representatives approved legislation which made participation in a coup attempt a specific crime punishable with up to life imprisonment . |
| 18 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 19 | Morag French , 27 , is more optimistic about a job , although she did experience a few brief spells of unemployment before entering the hostel a year and a half ago . |
| 20 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 21 | There was a little food left over from yesterday , so she managed to achieve a meagre lunch ; but in the afternoon she was forced to go to the village again to buy some provisions . |
| 22 | She 's only got two suitcases , so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind — like her tailor 's dummy and all the furniture . |
| 23 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 24 | All the child 's socks were dirty so she had turned a pair inside out and put them on her . |
| 25 | Stephen was away , so she had passed a near-silent dinner in the company of his mother . |
| 26 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 27 | Mum could see she was getting nowhere so she tried shedding a tear or two . |
| 28 | But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory . |
| 29 | but I , he says he did n't , I mean , since she 's had the chop , but between having the first and then having the twins , the second , she went back to work then at the Building Society , so she 's got a cheaper mortgage , so why did n't they pay some off then ? |
| 30 | Still , I said to myself , so she has got a husband after all , because I was beginning to put two and two together and ask myself a few questions . |