Example sentences of "and [conj] she [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He discovered soon after his return to the city that she had refused two offers of marriage — one from a wealthy suitor — on the strength of the promise made to him at Bath , and that she continued to love him ‘ with an affection to the ardor of which my Deserts bear no proportion ’ . |
| 2 | I assured her there was n't any harm and that she 'd done nothing wrong . |
| 3 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 4 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 5 | And that she had made it perfectly clear that , to her , fidelity and trust meant more than just nothing — meant everything , in fact . |
| 6 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 7 | I prayed that she would intercede for us , and show us her grace , and it came to me that she heard me , and that she willed to do us good . |
| 8 | Both that she should know ( had he told her ? ) and that she wanted to discuss it . |
| 9 | She was wearing a man 's woollen dressing-gown : the sleeves were too long for her and although she kept rolling them up , they fell down again almost immediately , shedding a little , grey storm of cigarette ash . |
| 10 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 11 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 12 | He wore nothing but a towel and although she tried to keep her eyes upon his chest a line of damp , curling hair drew them inexorably downwards . |
| 13 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 14 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 15 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 16 | She was not the dependent type and if she had to go it alone then so be it . |
| 17 | And if she went to see him now it was very likely that her appearance would rekindle his feelings , was n't it ? |
| 18 | Her energies came back to her in a rush , with the thought that now , having all that money , Jasper would be off somewhere , and if she wanted to catch him , she must hurry . |
| 19 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 20 | And if she tried to tell her father what she had experienced in the Lodge , what then ? |
| 21 | We know of course that this mother has the normal strong biological drive to care for her offspring , and if she did handle him would no doubt develop an emotional involvement . |
| 22 | Neither then , nor later : Carrie never mentioned Druid 's Bottom after that day , not to him , nor to their mother , and because she had frightened him so badly , crying like that , neither did he . |
| 23 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 24 | She raised her tear-stained face to his and it seemed quite natural to place his lips on has , and since she seemed to welcome it , he kept them there . |
| 25 | But it was starting to worry her that he could so openly refer to her running away from him , and since she had no intention of going into the ‘ whys ’ and ‘ wherefores ’ of that , and since she had made her apology for deceiving him — and had got off rather lightly , she had to admit — Fabia got to her feet . |
| 26 | And while she longed to tell him the truth , she dared not do so . |
| 27 | She walked up the path and rang the bell , and while she stood waiting she could hear the television blaring inside . |
| 28 | Time slipped by easily in his company , and before she 'd realised it , the sun had set . |
| 29 | Drinking the thin , bitter coffee , she reverted to the ideas of the night , to returning home , and before she had finished it was resolved on packing her things and making her way to Holborn station and thence to Liverpool Street . |
| 30 | And after she had told me , I had to pirouette , sing , laugh : a fairy in a burlesque Midsummer Night 's Dream … |