Example sentences of "and [verb] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 2 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 3 | For the first time in her life Miss Fogerty was in command , and found she liked it . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me take that , ’ said a male voice and turning she found herself looking into a pair of startlingly blue eyes . |
| 5 | Largely due to her courage and drive she enabled them to grow in stature so that the choirs were able to perform the major choral works drawing an audience of over 1,000 at a performance of the Dream of Gerontius and be broadcast with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on three occasions . |
| 6 | It could not be faulted in respect of how clean and tidy she kept it . |
| 7 | As she gathered them together , she noticed a small pamphlet stuffed inside the first carrier bag , and puzzled she pulled it out . |
| 8 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 9 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 10 | It was only a few months ago , but it seemed like years , since the young girl , who kept herself to herself , and thought she knew what she wanted from life , unpacked them with secret glee . |
| 11 | ‘ There wo n't be any , ’ Lindsey gave the quiet assurance , and thought she heard him mutter ‘ good girl ! ’ , but told herself she must have imagined it , as he was already striding down the corridor . |
| 12 | It had disturbed her , though , she said : being struck hard on the face and finding she enjoyed it . |
| 13 | Miss Knox 's solicitor Rosemary Nelson praised her courage for taking the case and said she hoped who would offer encouragement to other women in a similar position . |
| 14 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 15 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 16 | She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings . |
| 17 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 18 | Jo borrowed her lipstick and said she liked her dress , it had all started from there . |
| 19 | ‘ She phoned me after you interviewed her and said she guessed you 'd found out about the affair — to warn me . |
| 20 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 21 | As he ate and drank she found herself chattering away to him out of nervousness , a stream of things that went through her head , the small happenings of a day . |
| 22 | With great nervousness and alarm she followed him to his room . |