Example sentences of "she [verb] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cramming her worn , out-moded bonnet on her head , she stuffed the few belongings she had unpacked back into the portmanteau . |
| 3 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 4 | Now she uses the same techniques to teach other women cancer can be beaten . |
| 5 | Although she was by now in her late thirties , she recognised the same symptoms as in her previous pregnancy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By knowing these wild creatures and their attributes , she contacts the same powers in herself , and may learn to use them . |
| 8 | They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | She walked the few steps towards him , her legs shaking like a toddler 's , and stood in front of him , waiting . |
| 11 | Looking up to the blue sky , she watched the many birds flying overhead , chattering and screaming as they passed out of sight . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) . |
| 17 | Reading a letter from Miss Joan Rix in the EADT last week , I find that she had the same thoughts as myself . |
| 18 | A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently . |
| 19 | That she had the same troubles , worries and hopes that he had . |
| 20 | At necropsy , she had the same abnormalities , although the activities of respiratory chain enzymes were not examined . |
| 21 | She wanted the same things . |