Example sentences of "she [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 've missed you as well , ’ she laughed , as she hugged them both . |
| 3 | She flung them open , one , two , three , her heart hammering . |
| 4 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 5 | ‘ She said she varnished 'em or summat . ’ |
| 6 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 9 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 10 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 11 | Ben looked into her eyes and she lowered them and turned her head away . |
| 12 | And so , during the holiday , Millie was again invited to tea , and on this visit she amused them , together with their other children , a twelve-year old son , and a five-year old daughter , when she gave them an imitation of the nuns , excelling herself when she touched on Sister Mary . |
| 13 | Nobody read them but Clara , and she read them only because she read everything . |
| 14 | Telling them to close their bibles , she read them two stories ; one about the beginnings of life , the other a warning on the dangers of immorality . |
| 15 | To read ; she read them greedily . |
| 16 | And she read them all and is n't that lovely ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Laying her hands on his , she stilled them . |
| 19 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 20 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 21 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 22 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 23 | She led them towards the kitchen , certain that Bella would make them welcome and throw another three or four collops of bacon into the pan . |
| 24 | Millie 's new mistress paused as if uncertain what to do next ; then turning quickly about , she led them from the kitchen into the hall and to the open front door again , and looked to where her children were all standing round the pony and cart . |
| 25 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 26 | And she led them inside her house and through to her kitchen . |
| 27 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 28 | Automatically , she led them in and gave them their feed . |
| 29 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 30 | An unfamiliar young woman entered the sauna and , the moment she walked through the door , began to order everyone about ; she made them all sit closer together , then picked up a pitcher and poured water on the stones . |