Example sentences of "[conj] she took [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Pauline , who always had back problems , felt so sorry for the little mare that she took her over from Jackie .
2 And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes .
3 On the night before , did n't Arabella say that she took him out to Primrose Hill in the morning ?
4 It was then , when it came to her that Vendelin Gajdusek was heady stuff , that she took herself severely to task .
5 He hesitated for a moment , and she took him up on it .
6 Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration .
7 And she took it straight off her !
8 There was some kind of engraving on the medallion , and she took it over to the window for a closer look .
9 She did not try to soothe him , but she took him away from Skid Row , pulling him into a kingsize bed with freshly-laundered sheets .
10 Mother Bombie 's last words before she took herself off to her own quarters had been , ‘ Rose — shift over .
11 He attended without wavering as she took him round to the head of the little dale , above the cottage , pointing out the hare 's field below them as they went .
12 Then she carried the basket to the washing line and unpegged the clothes rapidly , chucking them down in a windblown tangle ( Ella folded things as she took them out of the tumble drier .
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