Example sentences of "and she [vb mod] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when she 'd wish them luck , as they roared over the village , and she would watch them all until they were silhouetted against the dying sun , small and graceful in an apricot sky . |
| 2 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 3 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 4 | He does not have Evelyn 's elegance , either , although his spare , laconic , style can produce some memorable passages ; here , for example , is a Queen Christina of Sweden — very different from her portrayal by Greta Garbo — telling Whitelocke , who had hesitated to pass on a letter and a mastiff sent by the preacher , Hugh Peter , that ‘ the dog and the letter did belong to her , and she would have them ’ . |
| 5 | What she decided to do was produce Monday which we agreed to put it in for Monday and she would ask them midweek delivery . |
| 6 | She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’ |
| 7 | Well when she 's level Clare means she 's well ahead of herself and now she 's got , you could give her books that were appropriate for a ten year old and she could read them |
| 8 | In one , the infant 's mother was placed behind a clear screen so that the male and infant could see her and she could see them . |
| 9 | And she could hear them talking through the bedroom wall . |
| 10 | the colours and everything and the order you want them , but the little figures erm , she buys them and she just paints them , and that 's how she could make er the ones for Shirley er for me , erm she gets little soldiers and she can paint them in the camouflage dress |
| 11 | I 'll give them to Elizabeth and she can pass them on to Martha . |
| 12 | And she should dose them now , before Ursula ran to join her or her hands shook too much to obey her . |
| 13 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 14 | Before she finished here and made her way to the sitting room , there were certain things she must say to Cissie , and she must say them without alarming the girl , yet , at the same time , make her aware that she was no longer a child , that she already had the mark of a woman on her . |
| 15 | And she used to clean them kill them and clean them and |
| 16 | And she used to bandage them tight |
| 17 | The illustrations were line drawings and she used to colour them in with crayons after each new plant had been correctly named . |
| 18 | And she used to dress them and they was ready to put in the oven and with these chickens . |
| 19 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 20 | And she used to do them all , I mean , machine hemmings and and finish them off as she calls them , you know , so Con , oh yes she could of . |
| 21 | And she used to get them ham , that 's right . |
| 22 | With a grandmother , it might be an odd domestic habit that is remembered — ‘ you know she used to polish her table legs and brass — and she used to cover 'em up after ’ — or simply her appearance : ‘ I can just see her with her white apron on , and cap ; ’ or ‘ she had a beautiful sequin coat , cape and a little sequin bonnet ; ’ or again , of a duchess , ‘ I can remember a tall gaunt woman in black — rather frightened of her . ’ |