Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an effort , she made them part , and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work . |
| 2 | She made me coffee , gave me hugs , and at one point I fell asleep , and was at peace for a while , and woke up sprawled on the floor , my head on her lap , one gentle hand stroking my head . |
| 3 | She made us tea as well |
| 4 | She fought him tooth and nail for a good 20 minutes , screaming at the top of her voice , until he eventually beat her senseless and killed her . |
| 5 | As Countess of Glencairn , Elizabeth remembered her old friend and employer , John Tennant ; she appointed him Factor of her estate at Ochiltree and gave him tenancy of Glenconner Farm on the estate . |
| 6 | She appointed him deputy party chairman.But that too ended in tears , amid Press allegations about a prostitute , Victoria Station and £2,000 . |
| 7 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
| 8 | The day she found us infant boys and girls |
| 9 | She told him word for word , adding coldly , ‘ Is that how you describe us to anyone who comments on our practice ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Angela worked in the shop before she left school , delivering papers and when she left school she joined us fulltime . |
| 11 | ‘ Our Blessed Lord lies here , ’ she told me as she handed me altar cloths and corporals to iron . |
| 12 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
| 13 | When Bruno landed his Radio One job , she followed him south , a move which put her on the road to showbiz fame when she was signed up to host Saturday morning kids ' show , Going Live . |
| 14 | Standing at the door with her knuckles on her hips , she bade me recline on the high wall-bed , as if for a medical inspection . |
| 15 | She cooked me dinner last night . |
| 16 | She cooked me egg and chips and sat by me while I ate . |
| 17 | Next day I tried to question our landlady about walking to Ipsarion as she served us breakfast on the marble terrace under the walnut tree . |
| 18 | She had n't forgotten that she owed him taxi money . |
| 19 | She owed us courtesy : she was a servant , she should have given in her notice . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 21 | She kissed him goodnight on two other occasions , briefly but hard on the lips . |
| 22 | She was surprised to discover he was perfectly adept as a painter and decorator — though why she should be surprised she did n't really know , she reflected a touch grouchily as she watched him work . |
| 23 | She watched him search helplessly for a reply , the hysteria rising within her that he might have ruined her chances of being accepted by her family . |
| 24 | He handed her the bottle of oil , and she watched him undress . |
| 25 | ‘ And then , when he brought the lady … no , she was n't a lady , she was just a woman , and her voice was common and she called me duckie and … and I said to them , ‘ I 'm going to scream . ’ |
| 26 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 27 | She called it Art Through the Ages . |
| 28 | She called it desertion and I often suspected that there was another man . ’ |
| 29 | She called it infatuation — an illusion which could destroy us both . |
| 30 | I put , Marie Ann gave her daughter a Valium before she took her driving test . |