Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 2 | If two people had some disagreement she could find a way of softening that situation . |
| 3 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 4 | From her meetings she will formulate a landscape plan . |
| 5 | ‘ Is there anywhere near here where we could get some bread and cheese ? ’ asked Breeze , thinking that at this moment she could eat a dog-biscuit with gusto . |
| 6 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 7 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 8 | In the distance she could hear a train coming and could see the yellow lights of the oil lamps in the signal box . |
| 9 | In the distance she could see a bus winding along the narrow lanes . |
| 10 | Anything less like a conventional date she could n't imagine , but she was rapidly beginning to realise that David Markham was not a conventional sort of person , and besides , she told herself firmly , even if he had been , he was the last person she would arrange a date with . |
| 11 | And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age . |
| 12 | One day she would make a fortune selling it everywhere . |
| 13 | One day she 'll meet a swan who stands its ground ( or should I say ‘ sits its water ’ ? ) instead of just paddling disdainfully away from the natatorial hound , and that , as we country-folk say , will larn her something proper . |
| 14 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 15 | On the work surface she could see a bowl of salad , the wine bottle and a row of cutlery . |
| 16 | She grunted so hard there seemed a very strong chance she might drop a turd right there and then . |
| 17 | Maureen Moore was nineteen , and when she had finished her qualifications she would become a music teacher . |
| 18 | After the visions she 'd become a shepherdess of souls , leading them to Our Lady and to repentance . |
| 19 | please God she will find a way of coming to your aid ! |
| 20 | She told the Association of District Councils ' housing conference in Southampton she would announce a review of the regulations to see how such parties could be controlled . |
| 21 | On Sundays she would invite a group of Magdalene undergraduates to lunch and they would stay till tea ; then another group still larger came to tea . |
| 22 | She concluded of Diana : ‘ On the one hand she might bring a breath of fresh air into her relationship through the sheer force of her personality … on the other hand if her marriage becomes too restrictive she will break out and see new and more exciting horizons . ’ |
| 23 | Cancer was diagnosed only eight months earlier , and Madeleine held a strong conviction she could find a way of helping in her own healing . |