Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 2 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 3 | Taking a clean sheet of A4 paper out of a drawer , she divided it into three vertical columns . |
| 4 | What 's more … ’ she seated herself in one of the button-back chairs ‘ … |
| 5 | She led him along deserted , echoing corridors ; nothing was happening in the whole enormous building , he realized , but the tiny preparations for this one tiny programme . |
| 6 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 7 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 8 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 9 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 10 | She made it with thirty seconds to spare . |
| 11 | She made it in four , her hair still wet from the shower , wearing jeans and a T-shirt beneath the white coat she had hastily thrown on . |
| 12 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 13 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 14 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 15 | All in all she got herself in such a state that it was a distinct let-down when she was met by Mike Booker , the team manager , although why she should have thought that the reigning world champion would bother to come and meet a flight at Nice airport was a question she was n't too happy to answer . |
| 16 | She got herself in big trouble ! |
| 17 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 18 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 20 | Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ? |
| 21 | How , she asked herself in those early days , has it come about that I , daughter to a humble carpenter and a washerwoman , have become the companion and confidante of her who is close to the throne , who is sister-in-law to him who will one day be King of England ? |
| 22 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 23 | And when that one ‘ went home ’ she provided me with another one , which is still going today . |
| 24 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 25 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 26 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 27 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 28 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 29 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 30 | Then she tried 'em with new make-up On a sponsored run round Bacup , And at Norwich for a porridge Eating contest which she won . |