Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 2 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 3 | Only that she must have been holding out on him all these years , that she did have memories which she had covered up or , to give her the benefit of the doubt , conveniently forgotten about . |
| 4 | She was thinking about a telephone call which she had answered just as she was about to leave the house . |
| 5 | She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner . |
| 6 | And Giovanna stood with her hand on the telephone which she had put down and spoke slowly , loudly , as though to an imbecile . |
| 7 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 8 | And although his eyes did n't seem to move the prickle of her skin sensed that he had n't missed a thing , from the mass of dark hair which was now half-up and half-down , to the crazy oranges-and-lemons earrings which she 'd clipped on because — well , just because it was Saturday and sunny , and because she had felt like it . |
| 9 | She needed a backing guitarist and asked Kieran , who she had met once or twice on the road , would he help out . |
| 10 | It was something she had felt rather than known logically . |
| 11 | The discovery that she was — goodness knows why — still in love with her husband was something she had fought hard and long against over the past few days . |
| 12 | He had naively assumed that the Concorde ticket he had seen on her desk had been one she had gone out and bought in order to join him in New York . |
| 13 | The unspoken aggression of this evening had brought back the nightmare because with him she had gone further than mere temper . |
| 14 | In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing . |
| 15 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 16 | She launched into a brief account of her visit to Puddephat 's rooms , leaving vague what she had done there and making much of the fright she had got when the fire bell went off . |