Example sentences of "it [subord] she [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | You can live something like it in a commuter suburb , where if you have a blazing row with your wife , neighbours will only get to know about it if she tells them . |
2 | God knows , he thought , I should n't say anything about it if she nagged me in any halfway reasonable manner . |
3 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
4 | And she said it like she meant it . |
5 | If your lass sees it cos she thinks you 've gone shop . |
6 | I wo n't believe it unless she tells me herself . |
7 | Fuck her I was drinking stout on Saturday night and normally do n't do it because we 've simply no money ! on the vodka and say it was n't even enough to buy a carry out but do n't say it unless she says she was here ! |
8 | ‘ You mean she wo n't have it unless she has you ? ’ |
9 | Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’ |
10 | For the most fleeting of moments , she knew humiliation , but then anger surged , and an aching triumph with it because she knew he could not deny her . |
11 | She said it because she believed it . |
12 | we , well at least we , we give that some thought , we do n't just accept it because she said it |
13 | And he goes he goes yeah well , I do it because she does it ! |
14 | Mind you I did n't say that I , I , I , I was faithful to that one , but I could n't leave it because she needed me so much . |
15 | So if a girl does not feel able to go and ask for the Pill , or if she is reluctant to use it because she sees it as a health risk , the alternative may be to use nothing . |
16 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
17 | Midnight did it because she willed him to , because she slaved to keep him up to it . |
18 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
19 | My daughter also did n't know about it till she had it in school . |
20 | Everyone sends their love , and Mum says you 've got to come straight home because she wo n't really believe it till she sees you , ’ his brother enlarged . |
21 | She heard it before she saw it , murmuring louder and louder with the squeals of gulls cutting shrilly across the regular soft booming of the waves . |
22 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
23 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
24 | She 'd lick her finger and thumb , pounce calmly , then roll the flea for a few seconds to stun it before she cracked it between her thumb nails . |
25 | He did n't say so , mind , but I told Angie she would have to watch it after she married him . |
26 | It 's exciting and stimulating ; with a private client I love it when she trusts me . |
27 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
28 | She was not familiar with the type , but she recognized it when she saw it as she would have recognized the Eiffel Tower . |
29 | Yeah , she she spilt it when she put yours down . |
30 | She thought about it as she said it . |