Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swab of the rag , the tickle of the brush , the buzz of the fire ( I 'm so sentimental about that electric bar already ) , the serendipity of Radio 3 , and her quarter-profile as she sits turned away from me , hair hooked back behind one lobeless ear . |
| 2 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 3 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 4 | Denice has already decided she wants chicken , but is n't sure exactly what she wants done to it before it 's put on her plate . |
| 5 | Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind … |
| 6 | Ran away with the blacksmith who beat her with his bellows if his dinner was n't ready on time , and now she lies buried underneath the spreading chestnut tree . |
| 7 | Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ? |
| 8 | As Pope can imagine a Martha Blount who is an exception to the follies of her sex ; so , in Leapor 's poetry , the happy woman is an exception because she has escaped the general trap . |
| 9 | She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ . |
| 10 | She has written to President Bush offering to hand over part of her late husband 's fortune for distribution to the poor in the Philippines . |
| 11 | The letter is concerned with the total number of lines she has written and with choosing one or two pieces which will represent her best work . |
| 12 | This is the first book she has written . |
| 13 | I believe she has written other books , you know , though I am sure I do n't know what they are … . ’ |
| 14 | She has written to the Attorney General protesting that the courts have been too lenient on Dr Courtney and she has tabled a Parliamentary Question to Sir Nicholas designed to force a judicial review of the sentence . |
| 15 | Here I use her hypotheses as set out in her paper ‘ Some Mutual Interactions Between Organizations and Their Members ’ as well as others she has written on the same theme . |
| 16 | She has written recently of the current situation in Zaire . |
| 17 | This is the first book she has written . |
| 18 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 19 | Lisa Marie has been secretly recording demo tapes of songs she has written . |
| 20 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 21 | She has written widely on women 's education and communication , and has produced films and other A/V materials in support of development initiatives . |
| 22 | She has written several books , including The Horse 's Mind ( published in 1984 by Stanley Paul ) , which expands on her fresh approach to understanding the equine intellect . |
| 23 | The child has made no effort , obviously , to relate the word she has written to any pronunciation . |
| 24 | But Izzard became convinced that there was a mystery , and she has written her book not as a chronological narrative of Stark 's life , but in the manner of A J A Symons 's great Quest for Corvo , in which the reader is presented with the biographer 's discoveries in the order in which they are made , as if it were a whodunit . |
| 25 | She has written on the relationship between jewellery and clothes in Jewellery ( 1984 ) and her most recent publication Ancestral Jewels ( André Deutsch , 1989 ) records historical pieces which are still in private hands . |
| 26 | She punctuates her conversation with snatches of song , hummed through closed lips , then recites slowly some of the words she has written . |
| 27 | ‘ Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past , threatens the future , and renders the present inaccessible ’ , she has written . |
| 28 | In her latest collection of poetry ( to be published by Virago in May ) she has written , |
| 29 | She has written a very full report which will assist us with a review of advanced courses policy in the light of the development of general Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( of which more later ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Good ! ’ she has written , next to Summerchild 's claim to be happily married . |