Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted him a scornful glance . |
| 2 | She flung him a savage little smile . |
| 3 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 4 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 5 | Going through to the kitchen , she made herself a hot drink , and carried it into the room where the fire was at last beginning to heat up the air a little . |
| 6 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 7 | As this thing got near the end obviously making for her side , away from the door , she realised what the round blob was — ; it was the nub of the umbrella they had bought their daughter . |
| 8 | She were laughing when I showed her that letter I got , cos she got one the same morning , , she said , and it said , and you can go round and talk to him . |
| 9 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 10 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 11 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
| 12 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 13 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 14 | She bore him a third son , but a difficult carriage and birth presaged troubles which eventually cost her her life in her forties . |
| 15 | Her hand came up and she caught him a stinging blow across the cheek , watching without a flicker as the mark turned first white , then red . |
| 16 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 17 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 18 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 19 | They talked over a meal that was prepared especially for her , and she found him a charming and entertaining companion . |
| 20 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 21 | At last , emerging into the street , she found herself a hundred yards behind John Harbour and Meredith . |
| 22 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 23 | She cast him a scathing look . |
| 24 | She darted him a quick smile . |
| 25 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 26 | She closed the lid ; when the catch failed to operate , she slammed it a second time with a violence that made several of the slumberers lift their heads . |
| 27 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 28 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 29 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 30 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |