Example sentences of "she [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts . |
| 2 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 3 | Not only was she coarse and stupid , her madness also made her violent . |
| 4 | Then she stage-coughed and muttered gracelessly , ‘ Indeed ? ’ |
| 5 | They sat along one wall by unspoken consent , like a school dance : a grey-haired man in a grey anorak with a once-brutal face now cowed by misery into a sort of gentleness ; an Asian couple , he in a leather jacket , resigned , she pretty and solicitous ; another grey-haired man who looked as though defeat was what he was born for ; a bearded man with a red scarf , lips twitching as he rehearsed things to say , things which would not help . |
| 6 | Is she approachable and easy to talk to , or do you find yourself apologising to her for forgetting things or because your child has heaps of energy ? |
| 7 | Not trusting herself to speak , she right-wheeled and made for her own front door , which now looked hopelessly out of date and shabby . |
| 8 | She chain-smoked and stopped eating . |
| 9 | They made an odd pair , she bony and remote , he heavy , grubby and vaguely disreputable . |
| 10 | They had n't told her that and she would need to know . |
| 11 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 12 | She did n't have to be told that they would be arriving within seconds ; Marguerite 's tight shoulders told her that and Alain 's lips tightened too as the tension in the car reached him . |
| 13 | There were some old aunts left her that and that 's like a museum inside it . |
| 14 | Well you could get her that and get her something else . |
| 15 | But there again , one week you might , one month you might get a one month he might give her that and bugger all the next month ! |
| 16 | Cos she goes erm she goes I told her right and she goes well you 're going to are n't you ? |
| 17 | I asked her right and she said er |
| 18 | A friend of mine had their grandmother living with them — I remember her sitting in her special chair , her feet on a footstool , with people getting her this and that . |
| 19 | Why had I not told her this and that ? |
| 20 | You dare tell her this and because do n't because this is really gon na make feel badly does n't want it okay ? |
| 21 | He poured her some and handed it to her . |
| 22 | Earlier that afternoon , Katherine had stood before the French doors and watched her some and daughter playing in the snow outside . |
| 23 | ‘ We had a girl in here the other day with an exchange student from France , ’ said David 's wife Esther , ‘ She did n't know what mushy peas were so we gave her some and she hated them ! |
| 24 | Margaret 's mother died in 1661 , leaving her alone and in need of a protector . |
| 25 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 26 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 27 | Even as she watched , the idyllic little world began to fade , leaving her alone and in tears for a world so cruelly offered , then snatched away . |
| 28 | Alice said they should leave her alone and sent Emmie into the garden to feed the rabbits and shut up the ducks . |
| 29 | She had , however , through the months of work , taken a real interest in what he was doing , and he found himself confiding in her more and more . |
| 30 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |