Example sentences of "she [vb past] [det] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met another man she knew and was dancing with him when Antonio discovered her , whereupon he was heard by onlookers to curse the moon for trusting in his fiancée 's purity . |
| 2 | She passed several men , but none gave her a second glance . |
| 3 | She admired few men , considering them selfish , lazy and weak , so that the one or two who won her respect by sustained endeavour were doubly honoured . |
| 4 | But now she decided she detested this man . |
| 5 | Oh , she hated all men , did she not ? |
| 6 | She hated this man . |
| 7 | How she hated this man ! |
| 8 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 9 | She loved this man , and he seemed determined , because of some misplaced sense of responsibility , to keep them together , yet she was trying to make him see that it just could n't be — for his own sake . |
| 10 | Alice , with a thousand terrible things to say about her father , kept them back , because she loved Jim , loved his helplessness , his vulnerability , and her own part in alleviating these wounds ; because she knew this man , or boy he was twenty-two — was really sweet , had a sweet gentle warmth in him ; and she knew that a spell of happiness , of success , would transform him . |
| 11 | Anyway , she saw this man Marx . |
| 12 | And the woman lost her brooch on the way back and she saw this man next morning , he was a policeman in , and he he was too fond of the drink , a and he he was on , he was a railway policeman , and he fell onto the rails , when the train was coming , nobody knows how he how he how he er he lost one arm er about there and the other one about there , both arms but he he survived it . |
| 13 | But anyway this woman that lost the brooch , she me she saw this man , without the hands going across the hill to , she asked him where he was going , and he said , I 'm going to , across the hill . |
| 14 | She liked this man more than anyone she 'd ever met . |
| 15 | She took his breath away , as she did most men 's . |
| 16 | Now she had both men in her room upstairs ; she had them standing naked before her . |
| 17 | The superintendent said she wanted some men to investigate the stories that Nicola was looking into before her death — child porn and drugs . |
| 18 | All her energies were too busy focusing on how much she disliked this man , who had not even deigned to tell her his name as yet , even though he knew hers . |
| 19 | She supposed some men were prone to it , but surely not Fernando ? |
| 20 | In the end you had to trust someone and she trusted this man . |