Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe it would do Isobel good to be dragged out by someone she would feel at home with , and a man of her own age would cause much more of a stir in the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | She rather liked it , not least because it was wonderful to have someone of her own , someone she could talk to . |
| 3 | That was her desperate need : to have someone she could talk to . |
| 4 | And it gave her the security of knowing there was someone she could talk to , someone she could count on . |
| 5 | Mrs , for her part , did n't want a culture-less idiot for progeny but someone she could talk to as an adult : i.e. , she did n't want someone too like his father . |
| 6 | Someone she could talk to at last ! |
| 7 | For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on . |
| 8 | She wanted him to be someone she could love and idealised the future in her head , but then found herself thinking about that most heartwrenching of adolescent discoveries ; people rarely are what you want them to be and betray you without malice , unaware of the pain they cause . |
| 9 | Someone she could share all her intimate thoughts and dreams with ? |
| 10 | This was no ordinary passer-by , someone she could appeal to for help . |
| 11 | Faced with this , Amy had seemed to abandon her frivolous society friends — or had been abandoned by them — and turned to someone she could trust . |
| 12 | Wherever they were , they could n't help sensing the presence of the man with the tent at the far end of the bank ; it was there with them as they crossed the field and pushed through the hedge , in the musty smell of nettles and the white lumps raised on their skin , in the bramble scratches , and the brown fungus that hung from dead trees Libby felt it but she was also attracted by the thought of someone who was ill , someone she could help or look after , like the white mice or the jackdaw with the damaged wing . |
| 13 | And it gave her the security of knowing there was someone she could talk to , someone she could count on . |
| 14 | The cat is someone Alice can talk to and someone she can tell all of her problems to , ie. complaining about the game of croquet . |
| 15 | But er they realized Now and every time I she 'll ask me , and she 'll say . |
| 16 | And if you tell her about somebody she 'll tell them . |
| 17 | For Liz Cooper it was somehow summed up by his big feet , a typical male defect , which she would complain about whenever possible . |
| 18 | She had thought of that first male kiss as opening a door inside her , through which she would step towards adulthood , real sex . |
| 19 | She would often pick up finger foods and eat them , but only in small quantities , and developed a preference for lumps of butter which she would eat in her fingers . |
| 20 | The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation . |
| 21 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 22 | She had a tin of photographs which she would browse through , reminding herself that life had not always been so humdrum . |
| 23 | It was the duty of the medicine man of the line of Armijas to tutor the spirit warrior through the Seven Levels , to prepare her for the final battle , in which she would stand with the other spirit warriors — the Holy Woman From Across the Great Water , the Man With Music in His Heart , the Red-Handed One , the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much , the Great Father in White , the Man Who Rides Alone — against the army of the manitous and the story would end . |
| 24 | Alice offered pamphlets and books , which she would procure for him . |
| 25 | She 'd promised him money for the van , which she would make wearing that bloody badge . |
| 26 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 27 | She walked over to her door , practising the sentences with which she would wake Rachel . |
| 28 | He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle , black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat 's wings . |
| 29 | Christine produced a new order form for the Lent Studies booklet and fliers for the Preparation Day on 30th January to be held in Dunblane Cathedral Hall , for which she would arrange tea , coffee , and a bookstall where it was hoped to have copies of the books mentioned as background reading for the Lent study . |
| 30 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |