Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 2 | Mike trying to cover up his unease about staying in so she could go out by patronising sarcasm . |
| 3 | Mrs Singh filled them in although she had already expressed alarm at the number of notes she was going to have to write to the school . |
| 4 | And I would n't even go in because I do n't think my dad 's making me go in except she kept me , and all behind because we did n't do our homework and she said right see me tomorrow , |
| 5 | Every girl in New York who is not a singer is only waiting for the right break to come along so she can get to be one . |
| 6 | Isobel took it , and he drew her down so she sat on the silk rug at his feet , on a pattern of birds and flowers , of blues and scarlets and browns . |
| 7 | Nobody invited Miss Honey to sit down so she chose a chair and sat down anyway . |
| 8 | It was clear from the reports that he was an insanely jealous man who , for example , ‘ made [ his wife ] walk with her head down so she could n't see the bulge in men 's trousers ’ . |
| 9 | She lowered the window by the leather tab and clicked the lip into the groove of the embrasure to hold it down so she could take some photographs ; several boys climbing over the fence on the railway banks hooted at the sight of her camera and posed , arms akimbo , pretence starlets . |
| 10 | But she would n't mind coming along cos she likes him . |
| 11 | He says well June must be coming in cos she had n't rang up . |
| 12 | Well no y she could n't put the B side in cos she s you 've got to put the A in . |
| 13 | and and Joanne Joe , say who could judge this , this is for our competition we 'll say Heidi coming , no , is anybody else in it , no er Sarah 'll come in cos she does n't know , right ? |
| 14 | but erm , she let mum come in cos she liked her . |
| 15 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 16 | Well let's wait until grandma 's sat down cos she ca n't think straight otherwise . |
| 17 | And then she ran upstairs and grabbed the other phone and Fred had to put phone down cos she would n't shut up . |
| 18 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 19 | I 've just bathed her in cold water to get the temperature down cos she 's . |
| 20 | She could also write down if she has any problems with any of these goals , or any spectacular successes ( like a new recipe or a new idea for places to shop for food ) . |
| 21 | She imagined it might settle down if she removed her brassière , but what if Dotty noticed and made some personal remark about her growth ? |
| 22 | He would scythe her down if she did n't fit in with his plans . |
| 23 | ‘ Meaning — do you slap her down if she dares to ask about the other women in your life ? ’ |
| 24 | I said to Bev erm do n't mean to say , I mean I might get home and find she 's got a phone call but she said to me yes I mean we , she did think of going out yesterday , and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we 'll go down if she 's in |
| 25 | The bodice is quite small , but it 's actually not as , you read about eighteen inch waists , I mean this is nowhere near an eighteen inch waist , and although she would have worn corsets , she obviously did n't wear , you can see there , so much corseting that she could n't move , and that she could n't bend down if she had to . |
| 26 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 27 | She did n't slow down until she was almost out of breath . |
| 28 | She had the dreadful thought that once her hands plunged into the foul greasiness , she would feel reaching , grasping hands under the surface , clutching at her , pulling her down until she was drowning . |
| 29 | He drew her gently down until she was sitting sideways on his lap , then put his arms around to hold her gently , like a child . |
| 30 | Rueing her own stupidity , yet somehow unable to stop herself , she ran a finger down until she came to her horoscope . |