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 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 9 | She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end . |
| 10 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 11 | She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She led him straight into an old-fashioned kitchen where a coal range gave out a dull red glow . |
| 14 | She led him upstairs to a homely-looking sitting-room , and opened the drinks cupboard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | She made it plain to them that she was upset by his tactless gesture . |
| 18 | She made it halfway past him , but then his hand shot out to detain her . |
| 19 | She made it hard for me . |
| 20 | She made it specially for him , and I 'm damned if I 'll send it back . ’ |
| 21 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 22 | A tear trickled miserably down her cheek and she wiped it away with her fist . |
| 23 | Some water dripped from the tip of her nose into her mouth and she wiped it away with one swift movement . |
| 24 | Diana found it a place of ‘ dead energy ’ and grew to despise the smooth evasions and subtle equivocations employed by courtiers , particularly when she asked them directly about her fiancé 's former relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 25 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 26 | She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty . |
| 27 | She regarded me warily from under a fringe of split ends . |
| 28 | She regarded him steadily for a minute with eyes still bloodshot from crying . |
| 29 | She regarded him thoughtfully for a moment or two . |
| 30 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |