Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] she [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could tell by her eyes that she had closed her mind to him . |
| 2 | Claire used to repeat his sentences the same way when they were kids and she wanted to wind him up . |
| 3 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 4 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 5 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 6 | The months since she 'd left her father 's house had been tough in a number of ways ; she 'd known loneliness a lot of the time , solitude hardly at all . |
| 7 | Hazel heard she ‘ d been chosen for the Scheme in early March — several months after she had submitted her application . |
| 8 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 9 | Tears filled her eyes as she described seeing him looking down on her . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was her soft , drawling voice or the fact that , no matter how interesting the topic of your conversation , you would inevitably see her smothering amiable yawns as you talked ; you would see the muscles of her jaw tighten and the tears start from her eyes as she tried to repress them . |
| 11 | When she stopped speaking his feeling of animosity towards her seeped from him , and the pity that he always felt for her again rose to the surface and for a moment he himself knew the extent of her frustration and the reason behind her furious tantrums when she had known his uncle was going to marry again . |
| 12 | John Morgan , 64 , who was her driver in 1988 when the young township activist was killed , told the Johannesburg Sunday Times that she had ordered him to remove the body from her Soweto home and ‘ dump the dog ’ . |
| 13 | She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature . |
| 14 | Now and again there was a light in his eyes , a far-off look , that was so appealing to her senses that she had to break it to ease her own pain . |
| 15 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 16 | He gave her directions and she agreed to meet him there . |
| 17 | They fell on the boards at her feet and she rushed to pick them up . |
| 18 | With the lease on the studio , the rent was peanuts and she 'd paid it all up front from the last exhibition , congratulating herself on being so sensible . |
| 19 | Carlo brought her flowers each day when he picked her up from her hotel , often adding other gifts : a silk scarf , chocolate truffles , a pair of sunglasses after she had mislaid her own . |
| 20 | To know the meaning of the weakness that had sapped the strength from her limbs when she had seen him half stripped earlier ? |
| 21 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 22 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 23 | She lifted an enquiring eyebrow , wondering if it would have suited his purposes if she 'd said nothing , because he could then have accused her of theft . |
| 24 | She had just gone to pieces and she had caused it all herself . |
| 25 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 26 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 27 | The Cages had fallen silent as Minch told her story , for it was many years since she had recounted it and then only briefly . |
| 28 | It had been barely two years since she had opened it with the money her father had left her . |
| 29 | It was two and a half years since she 'd seen her godchildren , Emma and Sophie , who 'd last been in England with their parents on a Christmas visit , staying with Sir David and Lady Wyndham . |
| 30 | In the October of 1855 Sarah returned to London , just five years after she had left her baby to be cared for in the Foundling Hospital . |