Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 3 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 4 | The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand . |
| 5 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
| 6 | Before they left , she took me to one side . |
| 7 | She looked them over one by one , Unice and Alice , Peter and Dorian , Jack and George and Eric , Stephan was there and Anna , standing to one side , Teresa , Miranda , Anita , Sasha , Livia and Miriam . |
| 8 | The gears were tricky and elaborate , but she managed them after one or two mistakes , and by the time she had been round once she felt very proud of herself . |
| 9 | She saw it as one of the major manifestations of eighteenth-century philanthropic puritanism . |
| 10 | She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs . |
| 11 | Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one . |
| 12 | She gave a tiny giggle as a little dollop of cream adhered to the tip of her nose ; she removed it with one finger , licked the pinky , then wiped her nose with her napkin , glancing round the restaurant through the confusing topography of slats and uprights of the seats and screens , apparently worried that this minor lapse in hand-mouth coordination was being critically observed by any of the surrounding middle-class matrons , perhaps with a view to passing on the scandalous morsel to their opposite numbers in Gallanach and having mother black-balled from the local bridge club . |
| 13 | She drank it at one gulp . |
| 14 | ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone . |
| 15 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
| 16 | The wind was behind her now , blowing her hair forward , so that she could not see properly unless she pushed it to one side . |
| 17 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |