Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would Jennifer react if she admitted she loved David ? |
| 2 | Whatever Laura 's motives — Moira believes she expected her to take injections or pills to dry up her milk supply entirely ; Bernard believes she was opposed to mothers returning to work so soon — the atmosphere was charged . |
| 3 | She made him take tap classes to loosen his ankles and gave him daily exercises to do under her assistant 's instruction . |
| 4 | But now she made him like others . |
| 5 | When she made them swap horses in their lessons , he refused point-blank . |
| 6 | Before the days of scientific toiletries , your great grandmother had to make do with simple cosmetics she made herself using herbs and foods from her kitchen cupboard . |
| 7 | She made it sound French , pronouncing the word so that it rhymed with ‘ Vaseline ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ When she realised she faced death she said to me : ‘ God wants me up there to look after the children ’ . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I did my teacher 's bit and told her to stay on until she got her leaving certificate . |
| 10 | She got she qualified July or August . |
| 11 | All right , so she was an adequate fixer , she helped him cut corners , smoothed out the rougher edges of his life . |
| 12 | She described her working experience as ‘ worse than anything I had ever imagined ’ . |
| 13 | That afternoon , when she found him giving Huw Pritchard a boxing-lesson , she caught a glimpse of the old Connor — the man she loved , the man she had married . |
| 14 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |
| 15 | You 're still Pascoe — and that 'll be how she found you phone book , nothing simpler . |
| 16 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 17 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 18 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 19 | Unfortunately , when the time came to devour the cakes , she found she had difficulty in eating hers because of its hardness . |
| 20 | Nancy Harrison has to take life one step at a time … after she found she has osteoporosis , a disease which weakens the skeleton and causes fragile bones . |
| 21 | ‘ I came … ’ and suddenly she found herself speaking words she had never thought , ‘ … |
| 22 | Instead she found herself remembering things she had disliked about the flat — the row of closed doors in the long dark passage , the kitchen looking out on to a brick wall , the occasional stiflingly hot summer evening when she had longed to be in the country . |
| 23 | She was a cripple , and at once her hip was cured — a hip , incidentally , that had defied the efforts of the country 's best doctors — and she found herself praising God in tongues . |
| 24 | As soon as nightfall arrived , she found herself locking doors , shutting windows , and finding strange solace in being barred and bolted . |
| 25 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
| 26 | She found herself rearranging things slightly , to perfect the pattern of shadows . |
| 27 | Turning , she found herself confronting Jamie Baird . |
| 28 | Not for the first time she found herself pitying Sarah Morey . |
| 29 | The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details . |
| 30 | She devoted herself to trade unionism , suffrage , and adult education for women , working with the Manchester University Settlement and the Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers ' Representation Committee . |