Example sentences of "[Wh det] she [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just says to Mrs Sneddon that she needed a new battery for her hearing aid and that a daimen-icker in a thrave didny mean whit she thought it did ! |
| 2 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 3 | He sat down in the living room into which she ushered him and observed , ‘ You 've taken down the decorations . ’ |
| 4 | The Iraqi government had released the previous week the transcript of a July 25 meeting between Saddam Hussein and the US ambassador to Iraq , April Glaspie , in which she told him that the US " has no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait " . |
| 5 | Before the race , Mrs Munns judged the best turned-out horse , which she told me she was also doing for the first time . |
| 6 | And that inside the locker was a case , the case your wife took with her to London today ; a case which she told me — told me and Sergeant Lewis — contained some curtains . |
| 7 | She was notorious for having lots of love affairs which she told us all about . |
| 8 | Her bedspread is frilled pink with white flowers , and the first things you notice on entering her room are a full-length mirror and an exercise bike , which she says she rarely uses . |
| 9 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 10 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 11 | They had recently watched an old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film on the television in which she thought she saw the source of his fantasy . |
| 12 | ‘ Why , thank you , ’ she accepted , and , thinking it an excellent idea , she returned to her room to rearrange her suitcases to take to Prague with her only that which she thought she would need . |
| 13 | I said well we had I said I had a bit of a run in with the lady who ran it , I did n't agree that he should be compelled to do singing which she thought he should I said and we had a decided it cos he . |
| 14 | Jazz was limping and making pained , mutterings and cursings which she thought it tactful to ignore . |
| 15 | He no longer recognized the room into which she bade him enter , a bare place once furnished with the haphazard gleanings of pawnshops and charity , now beautified beyond anything in St Jude 's by rugs and armchairs and a chintz-covered sofa , heavy red plush curtains at the window , a table with a fringed , red plush tablecloth to match , pictures on the walls , china ornaments , a good fire burning , something savoury and appetizing in the coal oven beside it . |
| 16 | The feel of him , the taste of him , was like a drug , one which she believed she had kicked , but which , she was now discovering , continued to exert a ruthless grip . |
| 17 | He loved the way she smelt , the atmosphere with which she surrounded you , the way she gestured , the ear-rings that sparkled in the light when she turned her head quickly . |
| 18 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 19 | For a reason not quite clear to her , Erika felt embarrassed , as if there were an irony in Karl 's words , especially the reference to Albania , which she felt she was not clever enough to understand . |
| 20 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 21 | Her father had expected excessively high standards of her as a child — better deportment , better table manners and better school reports — all of which she felt she could never attain . |
| 22 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 23 | He nodded , looked as though he was going to say something else , but then thought better of it , and headed off upstairs , leaving Alyssia clutching a confusing array of emotions , none of which she felt she could deal with . |
| 24 | There was a touch of desperation in her reply which she knew he heard , but surprisingly he made no attempt to mock her , or force her into giving him any more reasons . |
| 25 | Jane appreciated Flora 's style and ‘ game for anything ’ attitude which she knew she herself lacked . |
| 26 | Her mother had a genuine affection for humanity in the mass , which she knew she lacked . |
| 27 | She felt a small tug in the maternal breast which she knew she must resist . |
| 28 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 29 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 30 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |