Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [conj] she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | A TRAGIC pensioner hanged herself because she could no longer cope with the pain of her illness , an inquest heard yesterday . |
2 | It embarrassed her to remember the way Maurin had attracted her but she must not let that embarrassment colour the way she acted now . |
3 | I wonder if ‘ name and address supplied ’ would volunteer to be chased five miles by an angry mob being happy in the knowledge that when caught he or she would not be beaten up but dispatched humanely ? |
4 | Tristan 's arrival had prevented her and she would never have found the right words to accompany the gift in any case . |
5 | And you know er but she goes like , she 's like , like she said to me , once you 've done it once she 'll expect you to do it again , and again ! |
6 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
7 | Once , you would think he , she would n't have seen it or she would n't have |
8 | We have n't got one but she 'd like to . |
9 | She had almost successfully deterred André from his plans to paint the town red with her , had vaguely told him that she would see how she felt when he issued the invitation , only to pour all her good intentions down the drain when this morning Piers had received a call from Nicole , and informed Alyssia offhandedly that he would be out for the balance of the day . |
10 | In his frustration and anger , he had told her that she must give herself as well before he would take them . |
11 | Now he 's told her that she should pay for the new family car . |
12 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
13 | In the vital years before a child was apprenticed he or she could be captured from the streets , confirmed in God-fearing ways and inoculated against those habits of sloth , debauchery and irreligion which propelled so many of the lower orders to crime , prostitution and heathenism . |
14 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
15 | She stole into the kitchen to find Sabina and beg some hot water in secret , before the others found her out ; Sabina giggled and her eyes flicked from side to side as Rosa described how she must have sleep-walked , how dangerous it was , how someone could have accidentally woken her and she might have fallen down , without being able to put out a hand to stop her fall , and died . |
16 | After ringing the bell several times she reluctantly pushed her husband 's letter through the letter-box — he had very meanly sealed it before she could read it — and took the holdall around to the boiler room at the back of the house . |
17 | Her dress sense was faultless and Félix had taught her that she could wear eye-catching colours that she would n't have thought of choosing for herself . |
18 | All Frizingley knew it , even his mother who had grown so incensed about Linnet 's poverty that she would have poisoned her if she could . |
19 | Before she went she shared with the fellowship group a vision the Lord had given her that she would meet a group of Christians who were asking for help with teaching and counselling . |
20 | If a reader had asked you if she should reveal all in a frank autobiography I think you 'd have advised her not to . |
21 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
22 | She 'd wanted him and she 'd let him know . |
23 | He ogled her and once he had come out and asked her if she would like a dear little puppy dog to keep her warm in the night . |
24 | He 'd said he was sorry the incident had occurred and had asked her if she 'd like him to make her some Ovaltine . |
25 | So erm , I think when she said she did n't know , er , she was telling the truth , and when asked her if she could explain to me , the very point that just asked me , again she said she , she could n't explain , she had , she she 'd agreed , agreed it was a paradox , that she did n't really know erm , why the book had never been published , or until nineteen sixty seven erm note , note that it , that it had been taken . |
26 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
27 | Once a member of the clergy has been appointed he or she will visit the home to make arrangements , if they have time , which many might not . |
28 | may have wanted it but she would n't have done it . |
29 | If they 're overruled he or she can then appeal to the Regional Committee . |
30 | A housewife has asked us if she should pay off her mortgage now , while she can still afford to do so . |