Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hand strayed to touch his short thick hair , a small yelp of surprise escaping her as her wrist was grasped by strong fingers and she found herself looking down into alert blue eyes . |
| 2 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 3 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 4 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 5 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 6 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 7 | We got erm , got erm she bought me some Maltesers and she bought me a chocolate orange as well . |
| 8 | His voice had changed during the last few words and she pushed him hard against the end of the settle as she said , ‘ No , they wo n't come running , but have you ever thought of you doin' the askin' ? |
| 9 | Her opinion of her benefactor leapt up another few notches as she followed his messenger through to the tiny kitchen , where the porter dumped his box on the only available surface and bent to open the fridge . |
| 10 | A councillor member of a housing committee wanted to see information in a social services file on prospective adopting parents as she doubted their suitability as adopters . |
| 11 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 12 | Fourteen years ago Barbara Wootton identified a problem for social workers when she surveyed their job advertising , and looked at the jargon and specialised language which described the task applicants would perform . |
| 13 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 14 | Mike let her go with rueful amusement in his dark eyes as she made her way towards the lift , having refused all offers of help with her overnight bag , which she slung over one shoulder . |
| 15 | She scrabbled about in her duffel-coat pockets until she found her glasses . |
| 16 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 17 | And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood , where there were no plates and no stitching , but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform . |
| 18 | she looked absolute daggers when she took him out did n't she ? |
| 19 | and she to she took about three minutes before she opened her eyes and came round . |
| 20 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 21 | He was so like Sambo in his younger days that she laid her hand on his head , as if they were old friends . |
| 22 | For Ellen Musialela , Acting Secretary for the SWAPO Women 's Council , this year it will be 21 years since she left her home in the Caprivi Strip to join SWAPO 's armed struggle for liberation . |
| 23 | If it had not been for a visitor arriving then and her being obliged to leave instantly she had no doubt they would have waded into deeper waters and she knew she would not have been sorry . |
| 24 | She said she was drinking his orange juice under false pretences because she had none . |
| 25 | The King , she announced , would have to prove his household was cleared of these doxies before she allowed him into her bed . |
| 26 | No wonder the poor girl found herself tearing away her clothes with frenzied fingers as she felt them pullulating beneath her chemise ; this was no time to worry about modesty . |
| 27 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 28 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 29 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 30 | It was many weeks before she regained her self-esteem . |