Example sentences of "one [noun sg] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one afternoon she came in smiling . |
| 2 | Then one afternoon she came by and she asked my what was up . |
| 3 | One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas . |
| 4 | One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face . |
| 5 | When Atropos , who snips the threads of life , misses one thread she cuts another , and we who do not know why one thread is missed and another cut call it Fate , Kismet or what we will . |
| 6 | She continues to say that there is one kind she does not like and that she is going to convey what it is by a process of thought transfer . |
| 7 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 8 | In one entry she refers to his wife as an ‘ unwashed bitch ’ . |
| 9 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 10 | Hidden in his catalogue of explicit delights was the one implicit one he had carefully avoided — the one alternative she had vowed never to consider again . |
| 11 | She had always prided herself on her resoluteness and fortitude but there was one fear she had never managed to conquer — a fear of rats which dated back to an incident when she was three years old . |
| 12 | There was one girl she 'd erm she 'd burnt her leg right down the front of her leg er on the bone in the front of her leg and er her mother just wrapped up something an old stocking I think she put in it , and of course it went bad did n't it . |
| 13 | The one battle she lost was over the dog , Hector . |
| 14 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 15 | One silhouette she thought she recognized as Pascoe 's . |
| 16 | And the one question she wanted to put to him , she dared not ask : ‘ Do you still love me ? ’ |
| 17 | One tactic she has used is to decide matters outside the formal Cabinet , either in committees or in informal groups . |
| 18 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 19 | At one point she returned to art school , to do a printmaking course at Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 20 | To Joan , he confessed that he was ‘ not sure ’ so often that at one point she left the boat , determined to have the child on her own . |
| 21 | At one point she told Nick that if Hayling — whom she referred to as ‘ that nice-looking young man with the curly hair ’ — came round again she would refuse to let him in . |
| 22 | At one point she 'd given a talk on Sky TV about all the signs to look for in a youngster abusing solvents . |
| 23 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 24 | At one point she had joined a group of these elderly relatives , women either widowed , de-childed or , their men at the bar talking men 's talk , temporarily joined in huddle with sisters . |
| 25 | At one point she roamed over to the window and gazed out . |
| 26 | At one point she let her shoulder touch Clare 's arm , to be sure that he was really there . |
| 27 | At one point she stopped in her tracks . |
| 28 | When Tim came home to visit the children one evening she disappeared upstairs . |
| 29 | One evening she told Hepzibah to show me her dresses and cried because she 'd never wear them again . |
| 30 | ‘ She had been worse than usual , when one evening she said , very clearly , ‘ Joe ’ . |