Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later we went into the darkness of the Santuario ; there was no one there but the Madonna , who seemed to look down benignly on us as for centuries she had looked on friend and enemy alike . |
| 2 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 3 | Harriet seemed to have forgotten the grievances she 'd had against him . |
| 4 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |
| 5 | It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely . |
| 6 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 7 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 8 | Tonight , with Marlin working until nine and a late dinner planned , she 'd decided to spend the early evening assigning and wrapping the presents she 'd accumulated on her various Fifth Avenue sorties , sweetening her labours with wine and music . |
| 9 | At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ? |
| 10 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 11 | She was mumbling words , the cool words she had rehearsed to herself were lost . |
| 12 | After a moment , Craig took her in his arms and held her close and , smoothing back her hair , whispered to her gently , the very same words she had used to her mother . |
| 13 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 14 | She went on a school trip to Tuscany and saw many of the pictures she had known for so long . |
| 15 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 16 | I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions . |
| 17 | Because of the enormous disruptions she had suffered in her life she was finding it difficult to manage on a day-to-day basis , and prison represented a way of ‘ escaping ’ from her immediate problems . |
| 18 | Her idol is the 1920s artist Varvara Stepanova , whose clothes designs she has reconstructed for museums and whose portrait , along with that of the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky , she has stitched on to another of her own red dresses . |
| 19 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 20 | Of all the roles she had played in the theatre , of all the great works that had come her way , she was fated to be remembered mostly for how she pronounced the rhetorical question , ‘ A hand-bag ? ’ |
| 21 | She carried them on to the terrace in front of the house , and sat down , intending to read one of the paperback books she 'd brought with her until the light faded . |
| 22 | For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project . |
| 23 | The sensations she had experienced in Bruges were mere frissons compared with this storm of need … |
| 24 | Celia Cviic ( no , it 's not a typist 's error ) sends two recipes for burek based on street snacks she has eaten on visits to her husband 's family in Yugoslavia ; one with a meat filling , one spinach and cheese . |
| 25 | Within six months she has died of cancer . |
| 26 | It all began with the discovery of some pencilled jottings she had made during her painting trips in the wilds of northern British Columbia . |
| 27 | She produced from her shopping bag the box of crystallized fruits she had bought for him , and a mutual exchange took place . |
| 28 | Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold . |
| 29 | She admired the older girl Hortensia to distraction for the daring deeds she had performed in the school . |
| 30 | ‘ ’ Devon , the garden of England ! ’ ' said Breeze , quoting from the brightly coloured placards she had seen in various stations en route . |