Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage .
2 It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap .
3 She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall .
4 Then came the letter ; and she read it aloud to them :
5 When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her .
6 She read it out from the printed page .
7 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 .
8 She pegged it on to his blue jersey with the tiny plastic clothes-pins she used for hanging up her dripping stockings in the bathroom to dry overnight .
9 She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large ,
10 She shared her home with a woman friend and was intensely secretive about her privacy , leaving complicated embargoes in her will on the publication of her letters , many of which she destroyed .
11 In 1853 Mrs Reid gave hospitality to Harriet Beecher Stowe , who had come to England to speak about slavery at private gatherings of women , and in 1860 she shared her home with Sarah Redmond , the first black woman to undertake a public lecture tour in Britain on the slavery question , who later studied at Bedford College .
12 She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children .
13 But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge .
14 She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end .
15 She led her out through the door .
16 She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site .
17 She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit .
18 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
19 She led him straight into an old-fashioned kitchen where a coal range gave out a dull red glow .
20 She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard .
21 She led him over to the Fashion desk where Felicity was sitting , a vision of crystalline beauty and sparkling efficiency .
22 After exchanging a few words with him , she led him off into a corner .
23 With Endill 's help , she led him back to the sick bay .
24 She led him back to school kindly .
25 She led us out of the church , round the back and through a wood .
26 Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking .
27 I remember Otto mentioning that she entertained him there with Jean-Claude , and only later moved out into a room over the Café du Coin , to be nearer her ‘ young man ’ .
28 But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star .
29 ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya .
30 She made it through to the final and an eventual 6th place overall showed just how much she had learned and improved that year .
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