Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] she [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 2 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 3 | What happens if she does it on a weekend , will we just have a key ? |
| 4 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 5 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 6 | At last the little flame flared and she set it to the paper , watching the end blacken , smoulder and curl as it burned . |
| 7 | Mrs Browning handed her Ellen 's missive as though it were hardly fit to handle and she took it with equal reluctance . |
| 8 | She forked out the bacon , letting it drain before she arranged it around the plate . |
| 9 | Dolly cackled as she dropped it into her dustpan . |
| 10 | Their fingers brushed as she took it from him . |
| 11 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 12 | I goes what ? , oh do n't worry , I was pretending not to hear what she was saying cos she misses it after a while , thought |
| 13 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 14 | You know I thought when she explained it to me , not like some people think it 's dirty , I thought it was wonderful . |
| 15 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 16 | I laugh if she caught it in the |
| 17 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 18 | Ashi smiled as she knotted it at her throat . |
| 19 | ‘ You are quite sure about this , Dorothy ? ’ she said as she handed it to her for her signature . |
| 20 | He sat on the edge of her desk , watching as she tidied it without really thinking about what she was doing . |
| 21 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 22 | A thick , choking smoke arose but the rug began to burn and she dropped it with a cry . |