Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and she [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved aside but not right out of the narrow passageway and she was forced to squeeze past him . |
| 2 | Surgeons had inserted a plate and nine screws into her badly broken leg and she was faced with a bill for £1,950 . |
| 3 | Erm , your , I think it was Dwayne or was it , it 's either Dwayne , or erm , er Bob knocked a glass over , and er , Jane was like erm , trying to like , she was like going Edward move away , I 'm trying to sh I 'm trying , look , I 'm trying to stop people dancing round here , and like , these , all this , this er , glass on the floor , right , Jane was standing there going like this , dancing round all this glass , and like she was going like this , and everyone that walked past , she was going , broken glass and she was saying , and she was , she kept on going broken glass , they done it . |
| 4 | To Victoria Roberts , a young full-time party worker from London , they were the only two in serious contention and she was backing Mr Heseltine : ‘ Mrs Thatcher is a strong leader , and we will need a moderate Tory who will be equally strong — there goes my career . ’ |
| 5 | Aleena 's a serious kid and she 's learned the lesson . ’ |
| 6 | She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I could n't remember what she was saying . |
| 7 | Gastroscopy was repeated the following year and she was found to have antral gastritis . |
| 8 | Debbie has very fine hair and she is growing out a perm so a strong mousse was used and a reverse combing technique to achieve extra fullness for this amazing new look . |
| 9 | Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long , shiny red boots . |
| 10 | He smiled at her with that lopsided grin and she was undone . |
| 11 | She 's at an impressionable age and she 's mixing with some very odd people . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Daisy 's got into some sinking mud and she 's going down fast . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I saw a child walking along the hard shoulder and she was carrying another on her hip . ’ |
| 14 | Caroline 's blonde hair had been bundled under a large beret and she was wearing spectacles . |
| 15 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 16 | She was not a good artist and she was wearing company , but she must have some redeeming qualities , although Madeleine Corley and her companions at Tourettes sur Loup had not hinted at any . |
| 17 | Sheila 's havin' a good time and she 's getting a bit of money too . |
| 18 | This is one hell of an angry Duchess and she 's looking for trouble . |
| 19 | In the picture , Miss Ray was wearing a very short skirt and she was sitting on a swing . |
| 20 | It was a warm , sunny day and she was playing in the garden while her mother was hanging out the washing . |
| 21 | She was twenty-three and could push down a house or build one , it was a glorious day and she was going to a party and sitting beside Matthew Preston . |
| 22 | Oh mostly that really , supposedly going to America in February the sixth and the doctor , she said to the doctor what 's the matter and he said you 're really , really run down then he said to her what I suggest you do is to go and buy some cartons of fresh orange juice , a jar of honey and some natural live yoghurt and she 's ate it all , now she 's got diarrhoea ca n't win can ya ? |
| 23 | A friend of Gina 's , Julie O'Dea , was in charge of the tickets ; for the past few weeks , her flat had been a temporary box-office and she was running a tight ship ; all committee members who took tickets were responsible for the money they owed . |
| 24 | Then her shoulder was in a fierce grip and she was spun into the room . |
| 25 | For all her capriciousness , Liza was aware of the importance of time-keeping in her particular job and she was waiting for Captain Nash as he emerged from the conference hut a little before the appointed hour . |
| 26 | She 's says the horse is like a big brother and she 's going with a chance . |
| 27 | So she had left her native Ireland with a new , gentle man and she was expecting a baby . |
| 28 | Someone had dropped jelly on an expensive rug and she was attacking it forcefully with a brush to relieve her feelings when the bristles came in contact with a pair of smart leather shoes . |
| 29 | And it was an old woman — she was a religious maniac and she was rushing out of the house in her nightie and praying in the gutter . |
| 30 | A final spray of expensive perfume and she was leaving the room . |