Example sentences of "a [noun] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 2 | A route she had been forced to follow , never quite closing the gap , though it narrowed all the time . |
| 3 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 4 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 5 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 6 | After a bit she said , ‘ I do n't know about Ephraim . |
| 7 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 8 | She lies there on her side , facing me , watching me , still panting , hands still trapped behind her back , a strange , charged expression on her face , and after a bit she says , ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
| 9 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 10 | After a bit she shouted , ‘ The trot has a one-two rhythm . |
| 11 | Constance asked , clinging briefly to a hope she did not really believe in . |
| 12 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 13 | It was just a bedsit she had early in our marriage when we parted for a while . |
| 14 | Her screams were not heard and in a struggle she cut her hand on the knife . |
| 15 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 16 | Her feelings for him may be guessed at from a text she wrote decades later , after Gustave 's death . |
| 17 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 18 | ‘ Foreign ’ just meant that the car was a large luxury saloon of a kind she 'd never seen before . |
| 19 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 20 | It was a trick she 'd learned long ago ; if you bit hard enough all you could think of was the pain ; the misery and sorrow , in that instance , faded into insignificance . |
| 21 | Deep down , in some tiny corner of her mind untouched by this scorching , debilitating heat , she knew this was madness , yet she seemed powerless to resist as his mouth moved back to hers , hot and urgent , seeking a response she had to give . |
| 22 | The most she 's ever given us was a tenner she gave us one ga ga , for going away . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing really , except that last week Angy showed us a sketch she 'd done of him . |
| 24 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 25 | Scar tissue all right ; a birthmark she 'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant . |
| 26 | To relieve the strain she turned to painting , a pastime she has loved since childhood . |
| 27 | The superiority conferred by money or that of being an expert in a field she had glimpsed and credited , but on what , she wondered , apart from their rank , did the superiority of these senior clergy rest ? |
| 28 | For example , Katy Simmonds of the Oxford Polytechnic has described a technique she used with 12-year-old children with specific reading difficulties . |
| 29 | I was suddenly stunned by Heather 's amazing speed and decisiveness ; quick as a flash she had booked into the B&B ! |
| 30 | ‘ Why did n't she buy a necklace she knew was paste , for the ball ? ’ |