Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] and she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She screamed , I laughed and she dropped me . |
| 2 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 3 | I smiled and she took her leave . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said and she blew her nose . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing would surprise me , Ilsa , ’ I said and she threw her head back and laughed . |
| 6 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 7 | She smiled and she lifted her eyelids at a man in a way that conveyed how attractive and interesting he was . |
| 8 | But again she smiled and she shook her head , saying that she preferred to stay here for a while and … just think about things . |
| 9 | And erm she was like with him and she said and she said something like , Oh I 'm going . |
| 10 | The groom helped her dismount and she thanked him politely and waited , unwilling to break the link with her new-found friend before she must , until groom and horses were out of sight . |
| 11 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 12 | She had never seen him come and she regarded him worriedly . |
| 13 | Well she taught me to knit and she taught me to do a lot of embroidery and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | He grinned and she felt her spirits rise as she looked with affection at this man who was like a brother to her . |
| 15 | When he realized what he had done he panicked and she had it all out of him . |
| 16 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 17 | And then when he died and she followed him so soon , you see , I was at once cut off from all example of domestic life between the sexes . |
| 18 | He smiled and she touched his cheek . |
| 19 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
| 20 | He chuckled and she gave him a light punch on the shoulder . |
| 21 | He paused and she pushed his hands away from her with a violence that she felt right through her . |
| 22 | ‘ But then … ’ he paused and she wondered what he was going to say ‘ … she always looks nice . ’ |
| 23 | Overriding these fears , however , was her maternal instinct to indulge Bernard with whatever it was he wanted and she urged him to buy a boat . |