Example sentences of "[conj] she [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she never showed any interest in what I was up to at university , she often asked questions about the East End and seemed fascinated by my stories of Charlie Trumper and his barrow . |
| 2 | Any question of taking her into Penzance had to be abandoned and Harriet went off alone to do the weekly shopping , thankful to be able to leave Edna in charge of Celia and trying not to feel guilty that she actually preferred such expeditions without her daughter 's company . |
| 3 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 4 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 5 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 6 | She prayed that Steve would n't see the truth — that she still loved that man , passionately , even though he had deceived her so , and that her heart was breaking inside her . |
| 7 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 8 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 9 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 10 | She had a round face , round eyes which she rolled and raised to the ceiling while she spake ( spoke was too mundane a term for her pronouncements ) and she invariably began these pronouncements with ‘ Whooo — ’ to which Jane mentally added ‘ To-whit-too-whoo ’ , and concluded that there must be an owl species called Shurll . |
| 11 | She felt the sting of treacherous tears , her enemy in these past few months , lurking , waiting to consume her , and she hastily took another mouthful from the bottle , biting her lips , slightly numb from cold and champagne , to stop the tears spilling down her cheeks and overwhelming her completely . |
| 12 | Almost inevitably , questions about Dermot sent her into a rage — and she usually soothed that rage in a bottle . |
| 13 | Elizabeth said that ( like myself ) she could never bring herself to utter the words ‘ Natter and Noggin' ; and she never had any need to do so , for that establishment was no longer in existence when she visited Kyrenia eighteen years later — and she rather liked the place . |
| 14 | ‘ She was thrilled to bits , ’ he said : ‘ The pictures are innocuous and she never gave any indication she was unhappy about them . |
| 15 | There was a woman , and she often used this chair . |
| 16 | It was n't as if she even liked this man enough to care a damn for his opinion of her ! |
| 17 | But she also had many enemies … |
| 18 | My mother said brown does n't show the dirt but she never saw this house . |
| 19 | She would just lie awake half the night with her conscience pricking guiltily , and that would be a nuisance , because she really needed some sleep . |
| 20 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 21 | It is clear Marje never knew how her ‘ faithful ’ lover felt about Meli , or whether she even knew this rival existed . |
| 22 | Even when she later encountered more difficulties , she tried all sorts of positions , but never changed her grip on the hammer . |
| 23 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
| 24 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 25 | She usually found those , though , just as she usually found any cash or letters that he 'd hidden from her . |
| 26 | When his mother had told him , as she always told any man interested in Edith , about the bastard child , he had just smiled . |