Example sentences of "she [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , let 'er have the rope , Dick . |
| 2 | ‘ Bessie was 'avin' ter do the servin' an' yer know I do n't like 'er be'ind the counter more than need be . |
| 3 | She insists the gruelling teaching process is fun but warns : ‘ Patience is most important for the training . ’ |
| 4 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 5 | She whispered the words aloud : " He will share your bed and possess your body . " |
| 6 | She whispered the words . |
| 7 | goes out in Kings Cross and sh , men walk , a man walks past she goes the man goes Aargh aargh ! |
| 8 | She hugged the child to her . |
| 9 | She hugged the girder . |
| 10 | She hugged the Rodney to her breast , fearful lest they take it away from her . |
| 11 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 12 | Fielding it with one hand , she sobered , and , putting her glass down on the fender , she hugged the cushion on her knees . |
| 13 | Though ‘ attraction ’ was an anaemic description of her feelings , still she hugged the words to her like some priceless gift . |
| 14 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 15 | Quickly she stowed the silver away , put up the lampshade and left the others on the table . |
| 16 | This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime . |
| 17 | She experienced the pull of her blood into his mouth like threads of silk drawn up from her vein . |
| 18 | But soon she experienced the misery of the lonely wife , staying at a Bel Air mansion , coping with two babies and playing tennis when she could to fill the void . |
| 19 | She turns the water to steam and frees the light inside her , twisting and turning in a sparkling , spinning column . |
| 20 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 21 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 22 | ‘ Fit as a fiddle , darlin , ’ and I can hear , faintly , through the twisted frenzy of my own pelvis , a cheerful rustle as she turns the pages of her magazine . |
| 23 | She turns the sound down . |
| 24 | However , when seen again as an outpatient 2 days later , she admitted the overdose had been related to feeling rejected by a master at school with whom she was infatuated . |
| 25 | When she admitted the affair to Matthew , hoping for a display of anger or jealousy , he meekly apologised for not being good enough for her and promised to try harder in future . |
| 26 | Some weeks later , discussing the arts , she admitted the English sense of humour was difficult to understand initially , and only now could she laugh at my greeting of , ‘ Help , I am being bitten by a sanitary towel ! ’ |
| 27 | She admitted the girl had been in and out of voluntary care because her mother had been unable to cope with her . |
| 28 | After protesting that she simply could n't share her bed with anyone else , she admitted the real reason : she was ashamed to let him see that she had to get up to pee once or twice a night . |
| 29 | Instead , in a big company shake up , her job was advertised — and she failed the interview . |
| 30 | Was she enjoying the release from all the strain ? |