Example sentences of "she [vb past] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other woman , as if torn between a friend whose authority she respected and a husband whom she loved , explained with melancholy , ‘ What can I do , that 's how he is ! |
| 2 | She was always careful never to write anything which might betray where she lived and the identity of those whom she wrote about , while stressing that the column was based upon her experiences and verifiable fact . |
| 3 | She agreed and the couple have now settled in Dundee . |
| 4 | She relented and the god said that if she sacrificed a chicken at the Bāhan shrine on top of the hill , that god would exorcize her evil . |
| 5 | She rose and the apron made a tissue-paper sound , ‘ And we have to bear in mind , Miss Thorne , that for many people a hospital of this kind is not the answer . |
| 6 | She winced and the colour shrank out of her cheeks and then reappeared in two hot spots high on her cheekbones . |
| 7 | After a long pause , she nodded and the story emerged of a stillbirth she had experienced in her early twenties . |
| 8 | These she followed and the renaissance of Penhaligon 's was underway . |
| 9 | She shuddered and the nightmare came back . |
| 10 | She swallowed but no spit came into her mouth . |
| 11 | She blinked and the shape resolved into a broad stunted man with hands that almost touched his knees . |
| 12 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 13 | She laughed and the doctor laughed with her . |
| 14 | She could just make out the shape of the fork stuck in the ground , the bulbs scattered around as she had left them , and as the moon disappeared behind the clouds she shivered and a feeling of desolation flooded over her . |
| 15 | She screamed and the man ran away , leaving the woman shaken but unhurt . |
| 16 | Not that she agreed with him — if he were to appear before her right now , she 'd still defend what she did and the way she did it to the hilt . |
| 17 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 18 | She had what she had and the rest did n't affect her that much . |
| 19 | The way she did her mother was the best , though , catching that tiny lisp she had and the way her English was just a little bit awkward . |
| 20 | and he said for tonight and she said well she said I never felt so embarrassed she said I did n't know where to put myself she said and the girl that was with her the other demonstrator |
| 21 | ‘ How about tonight ? ’ she said and the pathos in her ignorant unknowing enquiry almost made me gag . |
| 22 | Then along came John , whom she married and the couple have four children , Emma , David , Claire and Ruth . |