Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 2 | Competence in teaching means having sufficient insight into the teacher 's own weaknesses , strengths and preferences to enable her to adapt her methods so that she is comfortable in using them . |
| 3 | Even talking about Friedrich made her catch her breath , swallow , bring the shutter down in her head . |
| 4 | Honesty made her admit she had hoped , but it had been merely dreaming , nothing like this harsh reality . |
| 5 | Trent let her take his gun . |
| 6 | Of course , she 'd made a big fuss about not having a Brownie ‘ Nuform ’ , but she calmed down when Mum let her wear her new blue party dress . |
| 7 | What she saw in his eyes made her catch her breath . |
| 8 | Damian lifted hooded blue eyes to look at her , and as their eyes met she felt her body tremble , heat rushing through her . |
| 9 | All the girls opened their grammar books at the page Mademoiselle commanded then Mary-Lou found she had her English grammar instead of her French one so she reopened her desk to get the right book . |
| 10 | In March , her friend Mary-Ann Stewart-Richardson invited her to join her family on their skiing holiday in the French Alps . |
| 11 | His blue eyes invited her to imagine what it would be like ( which she did , and found the thought quite pleasing ) . |
| 12 | The strain of labour caused her to break her pelvis . |
| 13 | Heather Boxer says she makes them do the washing up and she enjoys their company . |
| 14 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 15 | The knowing look in his eyes let her know she had n't fooled him for an instant , but he gave a single nod . |
| 16 | Mrs Roberts advised her to mend her temper before her daddy came home , and asked what Parr would think if he caught her like a toddler in a tantrum . |
| 17 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 18 | As Mahoney returned she shook it free but her eyes remained on the painting . |
| 19 | He knows so little about being loved , he can not really provide Miranda with any more than material gifts and force to persuade her to love him . |
| 20 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 21 | But characteristically she got her way about going to art school , Beaton persuading her to get her father to come up to the academy and talk about the future of his precocious daughter . |
| 22 | She had a fake — a trick : just before the contest started she smeared her mouth well with butter . |
| 23 | In An Englishwoman ‘ s Work among Workingmen , 1875 she recounted how the dramatic language of evangelical religion enabled her to press her case : |
| 24 | A cashier thought she recognized him as the man who had done it . |
| 25 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 26 | Instead , the President persuaded her to give him four more years . |
| 27 | Your only hope is to find Madame V — and pray the letter Beatrix sent her contains what the kidnappers want . ’ |
| 28 | She adored the game so much , Luke only had to shift his weight or touch her mouth to get her to do what he wanted , and she was so competitive she would bump anyone , at first even riding off ponies on her own side . |
| 29 | What kind of a lecher did she think he was ? |
| 30 | Moll Cutpurse is variously described as one who ‘ strays so from her kind/Nature repents she made her ’ ( i. ii . |