Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 2 | You er but when we were talking about this she told me that |
| 3 | She would have respected Simon Copley more if he had been less prone to venial selfishness , less preoccupied with his physical comfort , but this she told herself was probably the result of fifty years of spoiling by a devoted wife . |
| 4 | At this she cut herself a narrow wedge from the pie , and when her mother turned round from the oven and looked at her plate , she remarked , ‘ You wo n't get fat on that . |
| 5 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 6 | But of this she said nothing , watched Tina putting her cake into the filthiest , blackest , greasiest oven she had ever seen , while waiting for an answer to one of her rare inquiries . |
| 7 | She wants this doll , well Julie got it yesterday and said I phoned up , she said you 've got ta listen to this she said I 've just put a battery in when you want to hear it cry . |
| 8 | She persuaded Earl Nelson , the admiral 's doctor brother , to give her £250 of the Bronte Pension which had never been paid her , and with this she procured her final release from prison . |
| 9 | At this she changed her tone , and asked quickly , ‘ Is he all right ? ’ |
| 10 | In this she stated her belief that colour was not tied down to form but instead floated free , and that research into the nature of colour would lead to questions ‘ about being itself ’ . |
| 11 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 12 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 13 | Suddenly she thought how ridiculous they all looked dressed up in their best clothes and squabbling like children ; and feeling quite calm she drew herself up and turned to the Portuguese gentleman . |
| 14 | Celia felt that she had actively begun to dislike her , although it was clear she knew her job . |
| 15 | Glass goes so far as to describe her as ‘ a monster ’ though it is clear she had his complete respect . |
| 16 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 17 | She pulled the half-empty cup towards her , and after quickly filling another she passed it to him , smiling at him , saying again , ‘ Sorry . ’ |
| 18 | One way or another she brought it on herself . |
| 19 | and he said for tonight and she said well she said I never felt so embarrassed she said I did n't know where to put myself she said and the girl that was with her the other demonstrator |
| 20 | When she was free she took him into the office and sank into a chair as though exhausted . |
| 21 | When her breasts were free she teased him with the top half of her peach-coloured bikini , waving it over his head and snatching it out of reach as he stretched up for it . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid she meant it . ) |
| 23 | Whatever could not be purchased unpackaged she manufactured herself . |
| 24 | AT 2 she performed her first solo — as a bee emerging from a flower ! |
| 25 | She said well it 's not fucking funny she said I 'm not fuck laughing am I ? |
| 26 | She is so funny she cracked me up . |
| 27 | Ooh she said they they 're all foreign she said she would n't be able to understand talking . |
| 28 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 29 | Again defiant she told him ; |
| 30 | What had surprised her was how much she enjoyed it . |