Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hate you ! ’ she whispered as they fell back on to the bed . |
| 2 | " Its all a little bit like a fairy tale , is n't it ? " she whispered as they filed into the throne room with the other guests , and he nodded eagerly in reply . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's my first time here , ’ she whispered as they squeezed into a table and a waiter took their orders for drinks . |
| 4 | So Babushka trudged through the snow , asking everyone she met if they had seen the kings . |
| 5 | The lady was being offered a gas mask by Carter and gladly took it , just before she fainted as they entered the smoke filled floor . |
| 6 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 7 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 8 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 9 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 10 | ‘ What if we both get too drunk to get up for work tomorrow ? ’ she asked as they climbed aboard the bus and put their money in the ticket machine . |
| 11 | Got your brolly , Breeze ? ’ she asked as they neared the door . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , what 's wrong ? ’ she asked when they got back home . |
| 13 | On the journey back , she asked if they had slept together — in fact , jocularly , if Jessica had notched up another broken heart — but Jessica shook her head , without the usual laugh . |
| 14 | ‘ Any landing you walk away from is a good one , ’ she exclaimed as they taxied in to the small terminal . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose , ’ she ventured as they neared Water Gypsy , ‘ you 'll have to go back to the beechwoods this morning . |
| 16 | She rejected about a dozen of these sample shades before she mentioned that they cost sixty or seventy pence each . |
| 17 | She found that they vary independently of each other which suggests that at least one of the inversions is on one of the 8 metacentric pairs not involved in the numerical variability ( C. R. Bantock , personal communication ) . |
| 18 | She stopped and they faced each other . |
| 19 | ‘ Pregnancy suits you , ’ she added as they made their way slowly back to the house . |
| 20 | What a dump , ’ she added as they entered the village . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a bit worrying , is n't it ? ’ she murmured as they went into the room . |
| 22 | She stirred as they entered and gave a creaking groan as she began to waken . |
| 23 | She should be safe enough , she reasoned as they moved towards the dance floor where the discotheque was playing . |
| 24 | She nodded and they left the house hand in hand and walked across the springy turf . |
| 25 | ‘ I take it you and Rodney are feeling better ? ’ she commented as they strolled side by side . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's a lovely thought , ’ she breathed as they sat in the shade to drink their wine . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell me , Mr Gajdusek , ’ she began as they strode out from woodland and into a sun drenched clearing , ‘ do — ? ’ |
| 28 | If she decided that they had had enough of sightseeing or whatever , then they had had enough . |
| 29 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 30 | They came back now , and she softened as they flitted through her mind . |