Example sentences of "and she [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , she felt impatient with these worn-out illusions and she shrugged them off , casting them aside like old clothes as she had already discarded the dreams she had woven around Simon . |
| 2 | It was messy and tragic and Kathleen wanted to cry for her , but the cameras kept rolling and she shrugged it off and carried on . |
| 3 | She knew what that could mean , when the labourer was as young and inexperienced as he , and she looked him over again carefully for the signs of his servitude , ignoring the forbidding stare that warned her off from probing . |
| 4 | And my mam went there and she cut her down and everything you know . |
| 5 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 6 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 7 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 8 | Her first major film part was in Grease 2 ( which flopped ) and she followed it up by playing Al Pacinos hard-faced , cocaine-snorting moll Elvira in the blockbuster Scar-face . |
| 9 | She could hear the animal below her , struggling on the icy path , and she followed it down . |
| 10 | She headed straight back towards Miss Honey 's house and she reached it in less than four minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’ |
| 12 | There was a heady scent of rosemary and thyme in the air , and she breathed it in , feeling strangely at peace for the first time in as long as she could remember . |
| 13 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 14 | I did n't know what to say , so I just held out my hand and she heaved me up . |
| 15 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |
| 16 | Her fingers found it and she pressed it down . |
| 17 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 18 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 19 | It was ill , and she brought it in and nursed it back to health . |
| 20 | She 'd brought his coat from the car , and she wore it around her shoulders against the cold . |
| 21 | He fell into her arms without a sound , and she dragged him back into the storeroom . |
| 22 | She could feel the anger surging inside her and she fought it down , not wanting him to know what a fool she felt for not having been made aware of that fact . |
| 23 | He hesitated for a moment , and she took him up on it . |
| 24 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 25 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 26 | There was some kind of engraving on the medallion , and she took it over to the window for a closer look . |
| 27 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 28 | The letter was addressed to Mrs Violet Theresa McKeown and she took it down , holding it between finger and thumb . |
| 29 | A few minutes later he was jerking around in the grip of an atrocious dream , and she woke him up . |
| 30 | and she got it back straight away so that 's alright again now . |