Example sentences of "she took [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 2 | ‘ We could n't believe it when she took her first step five months later , ’ Mrs Hamlet said . |
| 3 | She took her early morning tea to the garden , and sat at the table to drink it . |
| 4 | She took her best outfit from the paper carrier on the mantleshelf , shook it to get rid of the creases , and soon was all dressed up and ready to go with her red lipstick , her pretty pinned-up hair and her fancy black peep-toe shoes . |
| 5 | ‘ If she took her poor child back to his father and gave her husband a second chance , she would n't need money . ’ |
| 6 | When she retired from the stage she took her greatest pleasure in her marriage , in travel , in bird-watching , in music , in her vast correspondence , and in the success of her two autobiographies . |
| 7 | South-West Durham Coroner Colin Penna recorded a verdict that she took her own life . |
| 8 | As she took her own cup and settled herself again in her chair , Mrs McDougall looked at me over her spectacles and said comfortably : ‘ The girls will have told you about Ewen Mackay . ’ |
| 9 | She took her full-bodied self to the door of Joe 's living-room and knocked . |
| 10 | PROUD mother Angela Thomas had a shock when she took her newborn baby son home and found the tot was a GIRL . |
| 11 | The harp was brought to her and she took her customary seat by the huge fireplace in the north wall . |
| 12 | She took her reddened eyes from the fire and looked at her host . |
| 13 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
| 14 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 15 | Reaching out , she took his right hand and placed it very gently on her breast . |
| 16 | Outwardly , she took his proferred hand . |
| 17 | She took his dark glasses , and let him live . |
| 18 | Anne whispered as she took his dust-covered clothes to shake in the yard . |
| 19 | Tremulously she took his outstretched hand and it closed around hers as if it had been there forever . |
| 20 | One country child born in the 1870s was an exception to this , for she had to share her grandmother 's bed — until her parents removed her , having been superstitiously warned that ‘ she took my young breath . ’ |
| 21 | My mother did n't feel like being left all that time , so she took my two sisters and me to visit her school friend Beryl , who was married to the poet Robert Graves . |