Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 2 | Only those thoughts were too uncomfortable to contemplate so she pushed them back into her mind . |
| 3 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 4 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 5 | She preferred to use vagina — until she looked it up in the dictionary , which gave its etymology ( vagina is Latin for ‘ sheath ’ , as in where you keep your sword ) . |
| 6 | Supposing she let them down after dear Franz Busacher had connived and wheedled to make her acceptable to Gesner ? |
| 7 | Great Aunt S was simply pouring her tea into the saucer , whereupon she drank it down with a loud slurp . |
| 8 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 9 | Laura was so relieved that she could only nod silently while she followed him out of the room . |
| 10 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 11 | Mary Rose took off her mink and handed it to a large redheaded girl , who looked at it and stroked the silky fur before she hung it up on the back door among the muddy anoraks . |
| 12 | ‘ One more thing ! ’ his voice stopped her before she made it through to the other side . |
| 13 | Mother Bombie 's last words before she took herself off to her own quarters had been , ‘ Rose — shift over . |
| 14 | Yeah well by then you 'd , you 'd already messed him up , she must 've got him to sleep before she put him down in the cot did she ? |
| 15 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 16 | The wooden seat , when she lifted herself on to it , was still warm . |
| 17 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 18 | It smelled all right when she got it out of the oven . |
| 19 | When she read it out to him he tapped it in for her . |
| 20 | When she threw herself down on the grass , he had expected Underwood to take advantage of the situation , but he sat upright and apart . |
| 21 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 22 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 23 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 24 | LABORATORY analyst Emma Lawrie found the right formula for courage when she hurled herself out of an aircraft at 2,200ft . |
| 25 | Well we have done I felt sorry cos I had n't really when she phoned me up over there I was up I thought oh my God ! |
| 26 | When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it . |
| 27 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 28 | When she held it up to the light she saw that a small circle of skin was inflamed . |
| 29 | As she heaved herself up against the pillows she discovered she was wearing a man 's shirt , extra-large and striped , and she 'd never seen that before , either . |
| 30 | He let his hand wander a little , and got it petulantly pushed away as she heaved herself out of the clutches of the chesterfield 's upholstery , and sat up on the edge of it . |