Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she belonged and wished to be , she would direct . |
| 2 | Moira Russell returned her smile , and went to another door in the room , where she tapped and went in . |
| 3 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 4 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 5 | He took her hand and led her into the atrium , where she turned and went into his arms . |
| 6 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 7 | But she was still enjoying her new position as mistress of a farm and house , and although she respected and liked him , she did not want to marry him . |
| 8 | But in the prayers , although she knelt and bowed her head , her attention was on the people in the church . |
| 9 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 10 | He was taller than she expected and wore a wall-cut dinner jacket that contrasted with the eccentric fancy-dress of some of the other diners . |
| 11 | Mrs Verity 's expenditure turned out to be far more than she guessed and their decisions were also affected because the bank was overcharging them for a time . |
| 12 | She spoke more loudly than she intended and Holly looked up , questioning . |
| 13 | After all , he knew Mr Parnham better than she did and he did n't look as if he could be fooled at all . |
| 14 | She did notice too that Moran was more carelessly dressed than she remembered and had n't shaved for at least a day . |
| 15 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 16 | Though the Lodge was quiet enough , it would have been a too perilous lowering of her guard , so she tossed and turned until not long before dawn when her body took matters into its own exhausted hands . |
| 17 | Jill wanted to get Bill a birthday present , so she went and found her piggy-bank ; she shook it , but there was no noise ; she would have to make Bill a present This example comes from work in artificial intelligence ( Charniak , 1972 ) which is concerned with the attempt to translate the significance of ordinary utterances into an explicit representation that might be used by a computer to produce " intelligent " responses . |
| 18 | She said many a wicked word , and many a cruel word ; she knew no virtue or goodness , she desired all wickedness ; like as the spirits tempted her to say and do , so she said and did ’ . |
| 19 | Okay , so she lost but that 's not important . |
| 20 | Dorothy was puzzled and did not know what to say , so she smiled and then started up the path to the back door , when he called her back . |
| 21 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 22 | Her voice was shaking badly so she stopped and swallowed once more and bravely went on , ‘ I have behaved like a child , a stupid , ignorant child , but I never intended it . |
| 23 | Once she fell and when he picked her up , her front tooth was broken . |
| 24 | Once she stumbled and nearly fell headlong , but somehow she recovered her balance and tore on . |
| 25 | As they carried Robbie into the yard she glanced towards the staircase door and wondered if she should ask them to wait a moment until she went and got a coat and hat . |
| 26 | And the words quivered uncertain between them until she straightened and waved him off . |
| 27 | She caught the ring at last between her teeth and he tickled her until she laughed and gave it up . |
| 28 | He studied her a moment , then reached down , shaking her until she woke and turned , looking up at him . |
| 29 | When I entered our kitchen Mum stared at me , dumbounded , until she recovered and found her voice . |
| 30 | Alexandra thought they could n't stop , not possibly , but they did and she saw Punch 's face , two yards away , look towards her , blank with unrecognition until she smiled and waved her hand and then he too grinned , and ducked his head at her and swung his horse away from the wall again . |