Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 2 | She was waiting where in life she had waited , outside the station , near where the road forked , going in one direction to Bures , in the other to Sudbury . |
| 3 | Mrs Robert MacDonald , of Glasgow , though where in Glasgow she was n't at all sure . |
| 4 | Lawyers claimed that during evidence she FILLED in official forms , FLICKED through her diary , DEALT with mail and STUDIED her cheque book . |
| 5 | A little crestfallen , Erika put her list away and dutifully said that of course she would be happy to do whatever Uncle Karl wished to do . |
| 6 | She replied that of course she could trust me , but that this time she would like us to meet . |
| 7 | Faye had said that of course she was welcome to browse through the large collection of beautiful books on painting and sculpture that filled an entire wall of bookshelves in the studio , and she had begun to learn something about the Renaissance , Impressionism , and modern Australian painting . |
| 8 | Lucy stared at her plate , expecting to hear Silas agree with her own statement that of course she 'd be leaving — but he made no comment . |
| 9 | The mask made him seem menacing , and she suddenly had the sensation that with Lucenzo she was playing with fire . |
| 10 | So Nigel thought , ‘ Oh yes , he 's got Carla to write it , ’ although in fact she had nothing to do with it . |
| 11 | He began to tell his family she was his girlfriend although in reality she had rejected his overtures . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ Alina said , although in truth she was wondering what point he might be trying to make . |
| 13 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 14 | Fran read on , deriving some measure of comfort from the less than flattering assessment , although in truth she knew that she was deliberately glossing over the more attractive aspects of the sign . |
| 15 | She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom . |
| 16 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 17 | I realized that in fact she was absolutely determined on going , she had n't the imagination to act out this sort of scene to punish me , nor , to be fair , would she ever have been so spiteful if she had . |
| 18 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 19 | She rages again , always aware that in fact she did nothing to prevent it . |
| 20 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 21 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 22 | In March of the following year her ambassador in Paris publicly apologised and promised that in future she would recognise French claims to precedence . |
| 23 | At that instant she chose the path of her own life , and understood that in time she would have to part company with her friend . |
| 24 | He had hoped that in time she would have his children and one day she might come to love him . |
| 25 | She in turn may hope that in time she will get the caring response she is really seeking and will pursue the pattern . |
| 26 | Beneath her window she could see the white humps of the pot in her backyard — pots that in summer she filled with geraniums and petunias in an effort to bring some colour to the uniform greyness , beyond them the wall that bordered the yard was also white-crusted . |
| 27 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 28 | Her features were similar yet somehow blunted , her body stockier — not fat yet somehow altogether larger so that beside Paula she always felt clumsy in spite of being a full four inches shorter and almost two years the younger . |
| 29 | When she 'd said that to Pascoe she 'd realized it was true . |
| 30 | It seems certain that to Modigliani she acted as stimulant , irritant and catalyst for his work . |