Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.

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1 While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge .
2 Little wonder then that during the build-up to her wedding she invited her former teacher Wendy Mitchell and pianist Lily Snipp to Buckingham Palace so that she could have dancing lessons .
3 Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine .
4 For several minutes she had nothing more to say .
5 For a moment she thought they all looked at her in surprise .
6 Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's .
7 At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life .
8 It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out .
9 Mrs Froggatt organised bring and buy sales to raise cash for the organisation , but after she 'd sent off a check for more than three hundred pounds she heard nothing more .
10 Later that day she recalled her own words and reflected wryly that the happy day would never arrive for her .
11 The next day she explained it all to Marilla .
12 In different ways she loved them all ; even her weak-natured husband , who showered all of them with affection , and who was filled with excitement that , at long last , he was about to become a father in his own right .
13 Oh it was funny with Alison when I first saw her on when she was still a terrible state she let it all out in a great scream and I just let her talk and talk and talk
14 Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work .
15 He helped her to her feet , anxiously dusting her coat , apologizing , undistressed , so courteous and unconfused that she felt that he had conferred upon her a favour , and to her amazement she heard her own voice answering , with equal , answering ease , assuring him that no , she was not hurt , no , of course it was not his fault , yes , it certainly was the roughest she had ever known it .
16 How hunky dory she kept it all .
17 As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known .
18 Over his cupping hand she placed her own .
19 Many years ago when I was in a play with Thora Hird she presented us all at the end of the show with a bottle of champagne .
20 the way she said it that day was , they 're old dogs , they do n't need the exercise and they do n't bark , that is the impression , impression I got
21 If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it .
22 But no doubt she told you this ? ’
23 No doubt she had her own share of secrets , but no-one would suspect her .
24 Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) .
25 As she cleaned away the dishes she wondered what those wooden scrapings from her floor would tell the forensic scientists .
26 Through the haze of steam she contemplated nothing much at all , and gradually felt some of her tension and wariness disperse .
27 It had never happened to her — in fact , quite the contrary , she revelled in the build-up to her own entrance , loving the rush of adrenalin that came every time she heard her own music .
28 and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ?
29 Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed .
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