Example sentences of "she [verb] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 2 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 3 | At the private view of that year 's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she met the architect and put the proposition to him . |
| 4 | She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people . |
| 5 | She lowered the glasses and glanced at her wrist . |
| 6 | She read the title and inscription . |
| 7 | But the clerk did not do anything to see that she read the letter and she did not read it . |
| 8 | ’ She emptied the pot and gave Annie a hug . |
| 9 | He watched her face as she scanned the street and the square ahead for a few seconds and then moved on . |
| 10 | Far too often she lacked the precision and patience of Javer , who was quite content to enter into baseline rallies and await the errors . |
| 11 | According to Henry , she shared the kitchen and the bathroom with her three lodgers , all single women much the same age as herself . |
| 12 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |
| 13 | The Irish President , Mary Robinson , had earlier said she shared the sorrow and anguish of the people of her country . |
| 14 | Her prophetic framework was based largely on the writings of Thomas Brightman [ q.v. ] and John Archer ; she expected the conversion and restoration of the Jews in 1656 , and the full establishment of Christ 's kingdom by 1701 . |
| 15 | Through nostrils she smelled the fear and the death in this wretched band more powerfully . |
| 16 | She plays the piano and sings and he 's her son . ’ |
| 17 | She plays the flute and her guitar very nicely , singing in several choir . |
| 18 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 19 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 20 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 21 | Gran did that , you know , as usual , and she made the cake and I 've iced it . |
| 22 | Within a few months she expanded the business and took over a computer firm from Hertfordshire employing about 120 people . |
| 23 | Had n't she sensed the shrewdness and strength of purpose that lay behind those mask-like features ? |
| 24 | She unlocked the door and they stepped inside . |
| 25 | She unlocked the door and got back in the shower . |
| 26 | so all I knew was that she got the divorce and |
| 27 | She got the house and contents , the car and all the money in the bank . |
| 28 | Other siblings resented the fact that ‘ she got the cash and we got a load of old books ’ ( p. 375 ) . |
| 29 | so she got the job and she was quite happy really |
| 30 | She got the doctor and his wife into their coats and saw them out of the front door . |