Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] " 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 | She had deliberately left off her knickers , so when she dragged the dress over her head she revealed herself standing nude . |
3 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
4 | She made him feel frightened , but as she lay down , eyes closed , on her side and facing him , something else in her , some frail , scavenging eroticism made him shake with desire . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
8 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
9 | She made me feel happy about having large breasts , because she herself had always wanted them . |
10 | ( 171a ) She made me look stupid . |
11 | She made one last feeble attempt to avoid the escalation of physical craving between them , knowing she had lost when she heard the unusual huskiness of her own voice , and saw Rune 's eyes darken in immediate response . |
12 | Bet she made you struggle last week , during the week so as they wan na ask for somebody . |
13 | In an effort to quell the hysteria she made herself do ordinary things — putting the kettle on to boil — milk to warm — instant coffee in two brown mugs . |
14 | She made herself sound enthusiastic , bursting with ideas . |
15 | She made herself spend less time with Carolyn , monitoring her own contact with her . |
16 | Alice 's hand shrank a little , but she made it lie steady . |
17 | Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain , she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body … |
18 | For a moment her heart caught in her throat , but then she realised he had brief , dark swimming-trunks on . |
19 | She realised she sounded elated . |
20 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
21 | ‘ You do n't think she got him to do that by multiplying figures at him , do you ? |
22 | ( 171b ) She got me to look stupid . |
23 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
24 | 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 ’ . |
25 | She asked me to say that for the record . |
26 | And since I was coming in to town she asked me to get some more . |
27 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
28 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
29 | She helped him lose two stones . |
30 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |