Example sentences of "[adj] and she [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 2 | She was very high powered and she hated having to give up her career to have a family . |
| 3 | She did her best to try and in to make things a little bit more er interesting and she did start a tennis club up , which was nice because there was nothing at all before then . |
| 4 | she 's going , erm because he , he does n't do anything , yeah , and she 's going oh I suppose any other girl would dump you ages ago , you do n't know how lucky you are , she just so nice , blah , blah , blah , blah , and he , I say it was so funny and she start shouting at him , that 's why he was trying to go oh shut up |
| 5 | The few rooms were large and high and she had painted the walls in pale yellows and greens . |
| 6 | Well I , I met him actually through er I was nursing erm a baby , she was only three months old and she 'd had , she 'd caught , from her older sister she 'd caught whooping cough . |
| 7 | Then he said , ‘ It 's nothing to do with what 's right or wrong , just that she 's old and she 's got nowhere to go . ’ |
| 8 | It 's a wheezy kind of gurgling and she starts to cough . |
| 9 | and the Scottish Court of Session agreed that his employers ' prejudice justified their sacking of him ; Susan Shell was sacked from her job as a care assistant by Barking 's Labour council , when it was discovered that she was lesbian and she refused to resign . |
| 10 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 11 | He went on staring , too , until her cheeks grew crimson and she began to stammer . |
| 12 | Her manner was impersonal and she seemed to regard my arrival with some relief , as if a problem had been solved . |
| 13 | Another pressing reason for leaving was that Jeanne Hébuterne had just discovered that she was pregnant and she had confessed as much to her mother . |
| 14 | About four months before , a friend of mine got pregnant and she had to have an abortion , and I was quite upset about that . |
| 15 | She was unsophisticated and shy and she had turned to him eagerly , warmed by his passion , his odd bursts of kindness , his quirks of humour . |
| 16 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |
| 17 | But it was quite a while before her heartbeat returned to normal and she began to feel calm again . |
| 18 | The Duignans were so naturally pale-faced that Mary showed no sign that anything was other than normal and she continued to bring tea and sandwiches to men working on a further turf bank . |
| 19 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 20 | She 's married and she 's got children and she , she 's tall and she got married now , yes . |
| 21 | She had her faults — she needed to be push-started and she had lost gears the way old people lose teeth — but it was difficult not to love her . |
| 22 | Fortunately this was a case where I had felt very confident of the remedy and close questioning revealed that her appetite had returned , her chest was n't as tight and she did experience feeling better in herself immediately after taking the medicine . |
| 23 | Fashion designer , Finn McGill , is heading for a brilliant career when her mother falls ill and she decides to turn her back on Paris to return to her home town , Belfast . |
| 24 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 25 | By the time she reached the hut her hair had turned white and she had gone dumb with grieving , so she could tell her husband nothing of what had happened . |
| 26 | The widow had lost ; she had to pay the costs and the fine and she began falling behind in the rent to the landlord since she no longer had a cow and its milk to sell . |
| 27 | Now on two cans of food a day plus biscuits and marrowbones , her coat became shiny and she seemed to have grown taller . |
| 28 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 29 | We would n't go in at a , I would n't go in at all , but Stuart 's mum used to live right opposite and she likes to go in occasionally cos she sees all her old friends , she do n't see them very often so she likes to go in and see all her old friends , otherwise I do n't |
| 30 | Many were still unframed and she had to admit that she loved them . |