Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter . |
| 2 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 3 | Bella always tries , but after a few minutes she burst into tears and would never go near that room again . |
| 4 | For a few minutes she indulged in a fantasy where she was one of the young mothers and the child by her side was Roman 's . |
| 5 | For a few minutes she knelt by the grave , and was presently joined by Maria . |
| 6 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 7 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 8 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 9 | ( Julia MacRae/Walker , £6.99 ) Pat returns to some characters she created in The Surprise Party , a book she did over 20 years ago which has become something of a classic . |
| 10 | After a few seconds she glanced at her watch in disgust . |
| 11 | Every few seconds she looked at the ground and shook her head . |
| 12 | For a few seconds she recoiled from him , her eyes dilated with horror . |
| 13 | After a few seconds she focused on the crude childish characters , |
| 14 | I do n't know I do n't know it it sounded nice a few points she did on it and er |
| 15 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |
| 16 | For a few moments she stared at the tawny eagle and then at Mr Wolski , and he looked at her . |
| 17 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 18 | You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband . |
| 19 | She 's got all these photos she took with that new camera — all jumbled up in an envelope — and she was saying she ought to put them into something . |
| 20 | These clothes she had on had once belonged to some Duchess , she said . |
| 21 | In both of these jobs she proved to very hard-working and reliable , well able to function on her own but always working as a member of a team . |
| 22 | She could remember very little about his fatal collapse , no matter how many times she went over it in her mind . |
| 23 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 24 | For many years she appeared on the list of the world 's best-dressed women , and is a frequent visitor to London . |
| 25 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |
| 26 | In many ways she acted like an infant … . |
| 27 | She had n't got many clothes she liked at the moment . |
| 28 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 29 | After several months she moves into her flat . |
| 30 | For several days she stayed off work and continued to weep helplessly until exhausted . |