Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun pl] [vb past] she " in BNC.
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1 | I and my sisters visited her there when we could , she was always ready to join one in what she called ‘ a dry mart ’ before lunch or in the evening , and for a time seemed content enough . |
2 | She specialised in art history and education and her studies took her to Paris and Florence . |
3 | Allitt fed her at 12.30pm and her parents collected her at 4pm . |
4 | Finally , she fell into a lake and her friends saved her because she was so good , and they loved her so much . |
5 | One country child born in the 1870s was an exception to this , for she had to share her grandmother 's bed — until her parents removed her , having been superstitiously warned that ‘ she took my young breath . ’ |
6 | If her parents needed her to be looked after , she would be off there again later ; or she would go there in the evenings to read a book to her grandfather , or play games with him , or listen to one of the old pair storytelling . |
7 | His deduction made her heart stop , and his choices made her feel as if she was being torn apart . |
8 | Other times it was dinner ; twice he took her dancing , the smoochy old-fashioned sort of dancing , not a disco , the sort where she was right up against him and his hands held her in a strong , commanding kind of way . |
9 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
10 | He leaned a big shoulder against the door-jamb , and his eyes swept her . |
11 | There was the bull in the river field to be avoided , the idiot boy in the Gate Lodge to tease until his frenzies frightened her and she had to run . |
12 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
13 | She tried her legs next , and they moved a bit within the straps , but her boots prevented her from pulling her legs through the loops . |
14 | But her instincts told her no . |
15 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
16 | ‘ There must have been other women , ’ Jenna began mournfully , but his lips silenced her at once and he kissed her possessively until she began to tremble all over again . |
17 | ‘ That was quick ! ’ he said , but his eyes complimented her , which she found disconcerting . |
18 | Leo looked at Katherine mutely , but his eyes accused her . |
19 | This time it was because her feelings told her he did n't love her . |
20 | Judge Gerhard A. Gesell ruled that Hopkins , who had been denied a partnership in 1982 because her colleagues considered her to be too " macho " , had been the victim of illegal " sex stereotyping " . |
21 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
22 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
23 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
24 | ‘ Of course not ! ’ she replied , and even found a cheerful note from somewhere to add lightly , ‘ I ate a huge meal at lunchtime , so I 'll probably have a snack sent up , ’ and , making for her room before her emotions tripped her up , ‘ You 've been more than kind as it is . |
25 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
26 | The shock of his touch seemed to rob her of what little control she still had , and her eyes flew open , her blurred gaze registering his gaunt face as she stared at him before his arms enveloped her . |
27 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
28 | As her eyes closed she heard her own swift intake of breath . |
29 | As her eyes refocused she noticed a depression in the pillow Fen had used — and something else . |
30 | The tigress had seen me , or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter , as her tracks showed she had done . |