Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] she " in BNC.

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1 Sadie would raid the bins for scraps when she could — perhaps her diet of rabbits needed to be supplemented .
2 She winced , clutched him for support as she eased her right foot off the ground , and a shabby handbag touched his chest .
3 The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do .
4 I had watched Barbara Castle go through contortions as she made massive social security savings .
5 Tipper nodded , making things as bad for Honor as she could .
6 She can go on like that for hours if she is n't stopped ’ .
7 Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him .
8 TV 's Miss Victoria ‘ Vicki ’ Michelle gets so many requests for suspenders that she 'd ‘ go BUST if she answered them all ;
9 But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those .
10 As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes .
11 Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip .
12 So y y y you , you , you , you 've got at least three things which are all sort of brewing up there and you think good grief what a , what a , what a state to be in because the poor doctor does n't know what on earth to do , poor Jan does n't know , well it 's worse for Jan cos she 's sitting there thinking I 'm going potty or , you know , ca n't stand properly or you know is leaning over or , or numb down one side of her face or , or or whatever it was , it was i i it was the , the dizziness I think actually which which was most alarming .
13 It 's a suggestion for Marie that she has a set of yellow whatsits and when you get one you get them all .
14 And that so I spent hours doing it done it for Marie and she 's only gone and swapped with the nurse !
15 er a property or something for Toby because she 's got to invest the money in
16 So , the challenge was on — we could n't guarantee the real Costner for Ellen but she said she would be happy with the next best thing .
17 ‘ I know I said horrid-things about Angy but she was my friend and I …
18 She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine .
19 On one occasion , Du Camp records , ‘ Flaubert was leaving Paris for Rouen when she entered the waiting-room of the station and went through such tragic scenes that the railway officials were obliged to interfere .
20 Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long .
21 I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor .
22 He could have dived for pearls and she could have painted .
23 Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was .
24 It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze .
25 Goibniu studied the parchments for some time , seeing that there was an elaborate circlet of gold for Flame if she became Inchbad 's Queen , studded with firestones which would be mined from Fael-Inis 's Fire Mountains .
26 They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune .
27 I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society .
28 Stella Clayton , Office Administrator at Hygiene Leeds has been informing staff and clients for months that she was going swimming with Freddy .
29 Edmund had been dead for months and she had n't known it .
30 Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it .
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