Example sentences of "she [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 2 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 3 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 4 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 5 | She went under completely and on her way down Fernando caught her and raked her all the way down his naked body . |
| 6 | He did n't like lying to her but thought it inadvisable to tell her that there was no rescue ship hurrying to the scene and that , as far as he knew , the only other people who knew of the disaster were the NATO HQ in Italy . |