Example sentences of "she [vb past] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 2 | There was the man Jinny had seen before , with the cold blue eyes that almost made her shudder as she met them again , and there was a boy . |
| 3 | To read ; she read them greedily . |
| 4 | Nobody read them but Clara , and she read them only because she read everything . |
| 5 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 6 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 7 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 8 | Automatically , she led them in and gave them their feed . |
| 9 | The tears threatened , but she fought them back . |
| 10 | Blinking , she fought them back , aware of their actual withdrawal . |
| 11 | She envied them bitterly . |
| 12 | Tears were flooding her face and she wiped them frantically away with the sleeve of her jersey . |
| 13 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 14 | She wiped them surreptitiously and repeated her question : ‘ Surely a woman is better off without a man ? ’ |
| 15 | Spreading the oilskins out on the floor , she wiped them off , finishing the process with the towel Nathan had tossed on to the worktop . |
| 16 | And then one pair were , did n't fit right when she got them home , so , I 've took them back and , got another pair . |
| 17 | She got them out and surveyed them thoughtfully . |
| 18 | She got them out one of everything and showed them all the different fish . |
| 19 | Painfully she straightened them out and healed the hand again . |
| 20 | She asked them why ; they said it was because they had information that the two children had been sexually abused . |
| 21 | Diana found it a place of ‘ dead energy ’ and grew to despise the smooth evasions and subtle equivocations employed by courtiers , particularly when she asked them directly about her fiancé 's former relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 22 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 23 | She labelled them neatly , writing the addresses in ball point pen and capital letters . |
| 24 | She phoned them up . |
| 25 | It was as if , because she bore them so much love , the actions of her children had the power to anaesthetize some of her most cherished convictions . |
| 26 | She caught them neatly . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm having a small lunch party tomorrow ! ’ she called , as she caught them up . |
| 28 | She snatched them up , pushed back the table , struggled past Yvonne and rushed to the door . |
| 29 | Suddenly noticing the position of her hands , she snatched them back , thrusting aside fitzAlan 's supporting arm . |
| 30 | When she woke the next morning , she found them even more entrancing . |