Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted she suffered some gentle ribbing when she first joined the all-male contingent but was now accepted as a member of the team . |
| 2 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 3 | But , she said I 'm pleased with him so far , but we still got to be careful that 's why she made him have this collar . |
| 4 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 5 | She made herself spend less time with Carolyn , monitoring her own contact with her . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't think she got him to do that by multiplying figures at him , do you ? |
| 7 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 8 | 3 In a letter to John Rothenstein , then director of the Tate Gallery , she asked him to buy more of her pictures , writing that ‘ every purchase of my work strengthens and enriches the sum of good pictures at the Tate Gallery ’ . |
| 9 | She asked me to say that for the record . |
| 10 | And since I was coming in to town she asked me to get some more . |
| 11 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 12 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 13 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 14 | As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him . |
| 15 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 16 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 17 | I tried to help her see that if she let herself go enough to enjoy playing building bricks too , Nicola would n't feel the need to throw them around to get the attention she wanted . |
| 18 | She told herself to clear all thought of their bankruptcy from her mind , to think like the rich he still believed them to be . |
| 19 | She begged him to see this new doctor who , she said , was supposed to be very good , very sympathetic . |
| 20 | She begged me to take this . ’ |
| 21 | Not to thank you , I mean — and Rose — oh , dear … ’ and her face crumpled , but the steely resolution which lay beneath her outward charm prevented her from giving way to the hysterics which she knew would take her over if she allowed herself to show any weakness . |
| 22 | She allowed herself to feel all the pain she 'd denied herself for so long . |
| 23 | When she walked she moved each hip separately , like a gunslinger moving towards an opponent down Main Street . |
| 24 | No she heard her saying that and she says to me I was so mad |
| 25 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 26 | But now she decided she detested this man . |
| 27 | Lotta had always hated it , but now she decided she wanted that too . ’ |
| 28 | It was obvious that they , too , had realised what a professional job it was , something reflected in their searching questions as to whether she thought she had any enemies . |
| 29 | She thought he welcomed some time alone . |
| 30 | She thought he put all to the test |