Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] she [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Never mind , ’ called McAllister , ‘ needs must … ’ and wobbled down Vetch Street , praying that she arrived at her destination in one piece , the balance of the wretched thing being all wrong , especially with the overloaded basket at the front . |
| 2 | Did you know that she dealt in stolen goods , arranged thefts and then fenced the goods , did you know she arranged insurance for many of the smaller shopkeepers — her kind of insurance ? |
| 3 | So he 'll be glad to know that she thought about him and wanted him to know it . ’ |
| 4 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 5 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 6 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 7 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 8 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 9 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 10 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 11 | The woman 's high colour deepened and she fumbled with the up of wine . |
| 12 | She had the door open at the moment with these bloody dogs yapping and she looked at me and said I ca n't hear them ! |
| 13 | Now then I do n't know if she talked to you |
| 14 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 15 | Her heavy lids lifted and she stared at him , bewildered , stunned by her own inexplicable reaction . |
| 16 | And then miraculously the weight of his body was lifted and she heard with overwhelming relief the deep , harsh tones of Luke 's voice . |
| 17 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 18 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 19 | By the time the medicine was ready the ferryman had materialised and she slumped with great relief on to the cross seat , wishing the crossing was a little longer . |
| 20 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 21 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 22 | In his London flat there is only an old Roberts radio his mother owned until she died in 1973 , aged more than ninety . |
| 23 | The light deepened till she looked like a ballerina in a green glass bottle . |
| 24 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 25 | And I 'm not sure , I ca n't remember which , I do n't know whether she started on the bottom or the bottom I 've a feeling she may be did n't start on the bottom actually |
| 26 | This bitch was also mated before she came into quarantine in this country , where she produced a large litter of ten . |
| 27 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 28 | She always felt unnerved when she researched at the august Victoria and Albert Museum and became only too conscious of her lack of formal training . |
| 29 | His gentleness was fake , she knew that now , his face distorted as she looked at him . |
| 30 | Her brows rose as she glared at him . |