Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun pl] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I proposed my designs she said ‘ yes , no ’ very simple . |
| 2 | When the local authorities dismissed her pleas she went home and beat her baby on the ground until it was dead . |
| 3 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 4 | One of my patients ( I 'll call her Jane ) realised that every time she visited her parents she came away feeling upset and inferior . |
| 5 | When Agatha Christie was asked where she got her plots she replied , ‘ Harrods ’ . |
| 6 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 7 | The schoolgirl told her parents she had stopped three nights in a bed and breakfast , spending the day on the beaches and on the piers , before her money ran out . |
| 8 | While she drank her lemonade and ate her biscuits she told the old lady about Brownies and how she had left her bike on the edge of the wood . |
| 9 | ‘ Aye — ’ she rose from the chair , went to a basket at the side of the hearth and , taking up a log , she almost flung it on the fire , and as she dusted her hands she ended , ‘ that 's what she tells me . |
| 10 | When he took her hands she felt the tension in him ; he was shaking . |
| 11 | But if the girl had her suspicions she said nothing about them . |
| 12 | The moment the words left her lips she regretted them . |
| 13 | The moment the words left her lips she saw the trap , but it was too late . |
| 14 | Even as the words left her lips she knew they sounded ridiculous . |