Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she read us letters from a boy she had met in the holidays . |
| 2 | She knew she was n't looking her best at the moment , but they looked the type to know quality when they saw it she thought , as she fluttered he awnings at them , colourless now , tattered and torn by the wind . |
| 3 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 4 | She advised him that-parents sometimes do know best , and to ensure the best they sometimes have to insist that children do as they say . |
| 5 | I was really surprised at how down to earth she was , I did n't really know what to expect , but she granted me interviews and I do n't think she has ever granted an interview from prison before . ’ |
| 6 | As Mrs Knelle descended from the mountains , she told me stories attached to various landmarks . |
| 7 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 8 | She told us stories about her childhood in Clophill ( I think ) but she never told us anything unpleasant , whereas I remember one good lady who loved to horrify us with tales of ghastly happenings ! |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ suggested Melissa in a flash of inspiration , ‘ she showed you sketches of them ! ’ |
| 10 | She showed us trees with calabashes and wooden fruits , and a thicket of juicy ginger stalks which sheltered huge , pink plastic blossoms . |
| 11 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |
| 12 | She arranged her pennies in. front of her . |
| 13 | ‘ Why have n't you read this if you 're so interested ? ’ she challenged him weeks later . |
| 14 | In her incensed whisper she called me names I did n't understand . |
| 15 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 16 | The first time she brought him flowers — a posy of crocuses in a glass jar — he suddenly and unaccountably wept . |
| 17 | She sent them sweets sometimes , and several pairs of red socks she had knitted while she was waiting for a call at the ambulance station , and a photograph of herself in her uniform with a tin hat on . |
| 18 | She sent him letters and gifts . |
| 19 | Dana got an allowance from home : his father was a government official ; his mother worked as a teacher — she sent him wads of onion-skin typing paper that were then unobtainable in Europe , and also drugs , bottles of Dexedrine . |
| 20 | She gave me sandwiches and coffee while I told her of Mrs Zamzam 's flight from the village in 1948 . |
| 21 | If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa . |
| 22 | ‘ She gave him drugs too , did n't she ? ’ |
| 23 | She gave him rags to wipe off blood and soil from his body and helped him change out of his blood-stained clothes , the jury heard . |
| 24 | Her Father had been a District Officer in N. Nigeria in the 1920's , and she gave us letters ; a diary ; some amazing old photographs and a telegram ; and , perhaps best of all , the mementoes of Piccin , the baby leopard reared by the family and then given to Edinburgh Zoo in 1929 . |
| 25 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 26 | She had them years ago . |
| 27 | And er , she said I didnae worry you and er he turned round and just leave it there , so I think it he 's coming to get it Saturday . |
| 28 | She wrote him notes . |
| 29 | Notes saying what to get for supper , notes telling him not to leave his shoes by the bed … sometimes she left him notes telling him how she felt . |