Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 His cheek was close to her mouth and impulsively she kissed it , pulling away before the fierce hunger for affection should overwhelm her altogether .
2 But even then , when she was standing upright beside him , he made no attempt to release her hand and Rachel was only too aware of his appraising glance as he glanced down at the wet jade swimsuit tightly moulded to her slight , almost boyish figure before abruptly she snatched her hand away and walked quickly to the changing-rooms .
3 In August 1746 Leapor looked forward to a career as a writer and perhaps she felt she now had less cause to protest .
4 Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em .
5 It clung slightly to her still-damp skin and again she surveyed her image in the mirror , this time full-length .
6 I made the mistake of giving in too often and paying her so much attention that eventually she felt she could do exactly as she pleased .
7 He was killed in the war and then she married my father .
8 But she was in the right and so she held her body erect , her tiny , heart-shaped face raised to his in haughty indifference however close to angry tears she might be .
9 A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child .
10 She wished with all her heart that she could turn around and go back , depart from this unprepossessing , even frightening place before ever she discovered what awaited her within its mouldering walls .
11 She had protested at their taking the Friar 's sack but now she allowed herself to be swept along by them without resistance .
12 His lips curved into a smile and immediately she realised her mistake .
13 Yes , he might be a useful contact but somehow she sensed he might be more trouble than he was worth .
14 And after a week or so she found herself able to tease .
15 Erm bearing in mind that when she actually came and spoke about her part-time job her income was thirty five pound a week and yet she said she was a tax payer well take home pay was thirty five pound a week and talking about being a tax payer .
16 Part of her journey , from Leeds to York , had been undertaken by train and afterwards she regaled anyone who would listen with stories of the noise , smoke and speed of the train , until they were heartily sick of the whole subject .
17 ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall .
18 This was Maria Luisa 's baby and now she understood it all .
19 Though I will say this for you , my love and here she put her arm most affectionately round his waist , " in the years I 've known you , he 's been your only real disaster . "
20 Just for a moment their eyes met , and Fran experienced the most incredible feeling of dizziness until determinedly she brought herself back under control .
21 She thought the strange light must be due to her dizziness but then she realised it was spring and the sun was shining .
22 They married in a great hurry and then she told him that by marrying she 'd lost her 50 a year !
23 Well , one gran that lives alone we get five pound an for each birthday , we normally get five pound for a birthday and then she buys us a present for Christmas or a gift voucher .
24 In Kempe 's case the problem is slightly eased by the fact that even she recognised her state after the birth of her first child as a sickness of mind and we should not regard this as an isolated episode of ‘ puerperal psychosis ’ that was unconnected with her continuing aberrant behaviour .
25 Ten minutes later she drove into the main entrance of Conway House and gradually she felt her anger ebb away .
26 Time and again she told herself she was fortunate to see the back of him , so often she reminded herself of the despicable way he had behaved .
27 After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry .
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