Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a clean sheet of A4 paper out of a drawer , she divided it into three vertical columns . |
| 2 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 3 | She made it with thirty seconds to spare . |
| 4 | She made it in four , her hair still wet from the shower , wearing jeans and a T-shirt beneath the white coat she had hastily thrown on . |
| 5 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 6 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 7 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 8 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 9 | She found it within five minutes . |
| 10 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 11 | The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand . |
| 12 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 13 | His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months . |
| 14 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
| 15 | Before they left , she took me to one side . |
| 16 | she took it on six year , he says seven to eighty so she looks like working for next six year |
| 17 | She looked them over one by one , Unice and Alice , Peter and Dorian , Jack and George and Eric , Stephan was there and Anna , standing to one side , Teresa , Miranda , Anita , Sasha , Livia and Miriam . |
| 18 | The gears were tricky and elaborate , but she managed them after one or two mistakes , and by the time she had been round once she felt very proud of herself . |
| 19 | She saw him from fifty yards away , coming towards her ; then he spotted her and when they came together he was smiling and had a hand outstretched with which he took her elbow . |
| 20 | She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism . |
| 21 | On 2 March , she improved it to 7.68 and , two days later , broke it twice in a day in Seville — 7.66 and 7.63 . |
| 22 | In a flood of tears , some my own , she presented me with four frozen chicken portions . |
| 23 | She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs . |
| 24 | ‘ I allowed about 11 days to do the first chunk of recording — and she did it in five , ’ says the 49-year-old composer . |
| 25 | Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one . |
| 26 | She gave a tiny giggle as a little dollop of cream adhered to the tip of her nose ; she removed it with one finger , licked the pinky , then wiped her nose with her napkin , glancing round the restaurant through the confusing topography of slats and uprights of the seats and screens , apparently worried that this minor lapse in hand-mouth coordination was being critically observed by any of the surrounding middle-class matrons , perhaps with a view to passing on the scandalous morsel to their opposite numbers in Gallanach and having mother black-balled from the local bridge club . |
| 27 | She drank it at one gulp . |
| 28 | And that was , you know , that was my grandparents when they retired , you know , he was sixty five , she was younger because she was eighteen when she married him at twenty six you know . |
| 29 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 30 | When she left him in 1983 he was devastated . |