Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old boat , seen in our picture ( below ) with her cox'n Walter Fairbairn , saved over 60 lives , and was the last pulling and sailing lifeboat in Scotland when she finally went out of service in 1943 . |
| 2 | This change in Pip 's attitude and behaviour and perhaps his realisation that he is not a true gentleman is his final change from contentment , to discontentment and snobbery to finally semi-contentment though I think he knows he can not be fully content with reaching some sort of conclusion with Estella as she still has his heart . |
| 3 | That figure is now just over 6,000 , and its not difficult to agree with Julia when she quietly describes the job of reading them and selecting the very best as ‘ daunting ’ . |
| 4 | Now I can only remember one thing about it : a passage which refers to the death by starvation of a girl in Paris because she only had a pint of milk and a loaf of bread a day . |
| 5 | ‘ And your parents quite obviously hate my guts because they think I walked out on Jennifer when she most needed me … |
| 6 | She , Topaz , would love Andrew whilst she still drew breath , but he was imprisoned at High Brook with a wife he loathed . |
| 7 | His letter had produced an almost incoherent farrago of warnings , pained reproaches and veiled references to the possible reaction of Mrs Reilly if she ever got to know . |
| 8 | Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer . |
| 9 | Within this text , which ends after Mome Elwis 's speech in reply , a speech that matches that of Dame Sirith when she initially protects herself , the wretched clerk finds that the only answer he gets is a speech that matches his own for its wordiness and clichéd character — a speech in which Mome Elwis well may mouth the same formulae as Dame Sirith in the equivalent situation , as quoted above . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 11 | C'zinsit was far ahead , wheeling in wide circles which brought him every so often closer to Kiku as she now rode sedately towards the hills . |
| 12 | And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it — when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety . |