Example sentences of "and she [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she proceeded to press upon Liz various samples of her skill , but Liz was unable to eat , nervous , wishing that it would all begin , that the curtain would rise , that the house would fill and the thick conversation rise like smoke through the thin , empty air . |
| 2 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 3 | He 'd told Dotty she would n't always feel so unhappy , that one day she 'd look at him and his face would seem quite ordinary , and she 'd flown at him , pummelling his chest with her fists , sobbing that the day would never come . |
| 4 | And she 'd strained at it , strained at it until it snapped . |
| 5 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 6 | He 'd deceived and manipulated her again and again , and she 'd fallen for it every time . |
| 7 | and she 'd fell in it and she were having right fits . |
| 8 | And she 'd to go to , to get her into the pony and cart and get her away to the doctor 's and get it stitched and , oh boy . |
| 9 | I laughed , and she 'd gone off the line before I could ask her about her health . |
| 10 | Jes paid her on Sunday and instead of telling us how they went round for her wages yesterday and he 'd already paid her , and she 'd gone to school with money in her car ! |
| 11 | She I I mean she were brigadier and she 'd gone through all her life |
| 12 | There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything . |
| 13 | She 'd had an abortion on the Sunday and she 'd died on the Monday . |
| 14 | Eighteen years away from a stage , eighteen years and she 'd forgotten until now that terrifying gut-wrenching dread of stepping out in front of several hundred people and making a total fool of yourself . |
| 15 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 16 | and she 'd got in touch with him . |
| 17 | She 'd found no trace of Jake or Adam on Starr Hills ; and she 'd returned to Gran 's into the usual evening bustle of getting ready for next morning 's breakfasts . |
| 18 | In the end , to his own surprise , be had quite successfully smoothed away her early-morning blues , and she 'd returned to sleep without having mentioned once the child she 'd lost . |
| 19 | She had written little in the hour before the sudden sound had startled her and she began to sing to herself , the words of that same song she had sung so long before in this same room . |
| 20 | Her friend greeted her as if she had never been away , so the guilt evaporated and she began to talk about Nicky . |
| 21 | Inside the farmhouse , she showed me some of her furniture and when I saw all the cards around the place and she began to talk about how proud she was about the large number of people who wrote to her , it dawned on me that she must be a bit of a celebrity . |
| 22 | This trite communication put an end to Emma 's overtures and she began to fade from their lives . |
| 23 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 24 | She washed quickly , the water barely lukewarm , but the tepid water helped clear her muzzy head , and she began running through her plans for the day — if she kept herself busy she could avoid the drink . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said again , and the floodgates really opened , and she began to cry for all the bewilderment of feelings he had caused in her . |
| 26 | And she began to run along the road to him . |
| 27 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 28 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 29 | She had refused — even though it would have offered her an easy way out , and then circumstances had intervened and she had ended in the brothels in the notorious Monto . |
| 30 | Then they took her pay packet away ; they would give her only £5 and she had to go to her sisters and borrow money for her clothes and things . |