Example sentences of "and [verb] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to talk about something that did not have to do with fondling and stroking she spoke of the garments . |
| 2 | and expected she had n't got as much as she |
| 3 | She was busy stuffing our cupboards , the fridge and the freezer with the food and supplies she had brought from the town . |
| 4 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 5 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 6 | Just as she , Fru Møller , was adjusting to the need for a doctor and the possibility of a corpse at The Tamarisks , the same Miss Danziger did the rounds of the tables apologising for the shock and upset she had caused . |
| 7 | I saw her twice between that Friday in Bamford and seeing her silhouetted on the blind on Christmas Day . ’ |
| 8 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 9 | Until she was eighteen , her father had educated her himself ; he had dressed her in navy serge and black stockings and made her read John Stuart Mill for an hour every evening . |
| 10 | Days like this , she wished people would drop in for coffee , knowing they would n't after the song and dance she made about needing solitude . |
| 11 | She was still distressed and could have wished that Mr. Crowther had waited a little longer before telling her about her inheritance , when the sadness and regret she felt about Aunt Alicia 's death was not so overpowering . |
| 12 | She wished she had done and admitted she had not . |
| 13 | If she did n't find a safe corner to rest and eat she stood the chance of being caught . |
| 14 | Jenna looked at him anxiously and he spun back to stare at her , anger on his face until he saw how pale and shaken she looked . |
| 15 | Round and round she twisted . |
| 16 | Round and round she went , just scared enough to hold on tight to the pole , the wind blowing back her spread of straight golden hair . |
| 17 | Through shame and fear she had lost him once , a long time ago . |
| 18 | She tried to tear off the balaclava , but it was tied around the neck , so in her shame and fear she attempted to shield her body with her handcuffed arms . |
| 19 | She screwed her eyes up and pretended she saw evening coming on . |
| 20 | It was really frustrating when Kylie was over here and she used to ring me and say she 'd seen Prince the night before , or Madonna or someone else really great . |
| 21 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 22 | After she returned , she could feign sleep and say she wanted to retire . |
| 23 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 24 | He looked round for Catherine and found she had vanished . |
| 25 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 26 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 27 | She secured her garage door and , having decided to walk round to the front of the building to find out what Naylor was so furious about , she turned around — and found she had no need to go anywhere . |
| 28 | ‘ If Fraser had n't mucked about when he got back and found she 'd gone , we might have caught her before the boat sailed . ’ |
| 29 | For the first time in her life Miss Fogerty was in command , and found she liked it . |
| 30 | Robyn clutched the receiver and found she did n't have the first idea of what she would say when he answered it . |