Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
| 2 | Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle . |
| 3 | She then swept the kitchen floor , knowing her aunt would wish this to be done , and as she swished the few crumbs into the dustpan she heard Silas moving furniture in the dining-room . |
| 4 | Cramming her worn , out-moded bonnet on her head , she stuffed the few belongings she had unpacked back into the portmanteau . |
| 5 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 6 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 7 | With a stab of fear , she recognised the same lack of focus in Connor 's eyes , as if he were looking inwards instead of seeing the world about him . |
| 8 | Although she was by now in her late thirties , she recognised the same symptoms as in her previous pregnancy . |
| 9 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 10 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |
| 11 | An officer , she has worked since 1987 in Northern Bank , Strabane , the town where she joined the former Belfast Banking Co . |
| 12 | During the course of the next year , she expressed the same view each time I saw her . |
| 13 | Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses . |
| 14 | They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door . |
| 15 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 16 | She walked the few steps towards him , her legs shaking like a toddler 's , and stood in front of him , waiting . |
| 17 | Allowing herself a small triumphant smile , she started the same process on the right boot . |
| 18 | Looking up to the blue sky , she watched the many birds flying overhead , chattering and screaming as they passed out of sight . |
| 19 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
| 20 | She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her . |
| 21 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 22 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |
| 23 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 24 | She went the same day , they tell me . |
| 25 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 26 | Chlothild was presented with the choice of either having her grandchildren tonsured or killed ; she chose the latter solution , although one child , Chlodovald , escaped to become a monk and , in time , to be revered as St Cloud . |
| 27 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 28 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 29 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 30 | She did the same in the kitchen ; she did the same thing with the books , removing them , dusting them carefully , and returning them to clean , wiped , and waxed shelves . |