Example sentences of "[conj] she [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz has been appointed customer services manager with Skipton Building Society , where she previously held a management post in the commercial lending department . |
| 2 | The addition of colour , and specifically the facility to produce separations , is of substantial benefit to the professional graphic artist but , unless he or she already possesses a colour Macintosh II , is likely to be of little real benefit to the average user other than as a ‘ feature ’ to show off . |
| 3 | Finally , evidence is accumulating that a person 's emotional environment influences his or her likelihood of suffering an acute psychotic episode if he or she already has a history of schizophrenic disorder . |
| 4 | Now then , he argues that since in the state of nature erm the individual has the right to life , liberty and property , he or she also has a right to take such steps are necessary for the protection o o of these rights . |
| 5 | I have seen many cartoons of American grandmothers in rocking chairs on their front porches and am always reminded of Mrs. Burden , although she never had a clay pipe in her mouth . |
| 6 | And on the very day when she had woken up and decided to divorce him , to celebrate the fact that she finally had a life of her own ; a life which did n't include Julius Landor . |
| 7 | He said she was an avant-garde feminist who — when he first met her — was proud of the fact that she already had a child whose father no one knew . |
| 8 | Her dark red suit , and the shoulder bag that swung carelessly , indicated that she also had a trip to town in view . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ she denied numbly , a hectic flush along her cheekbones , because she had just discovered that she also needed a man she could fight with , cross swords with . |
| 10 | It is noteworthy that Ælfgifu is not called queen , but that she nevertheless occupies a position next to Emma and before the archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 11 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 12 | The fact that she actually arrived a week after the Jubilee is a trifling historical detail unlikely to mar the magnificence of the concept . |
| 13 | Mrs Turpin remarks to the woman next to her that she once knew a girl who had everything a child could possibly want , but was still a spoilt , ungrateful brat . |
| 14 | The first she knew of Piers 's presence in the room was his light touch on her shoulder , and it was so unexpected that she almost jumped a mile into the air . |
| 15 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 16 | I remembered that Sally had been on the brink of a place in the university ladies golf team , and I discovered that she now sported a handicap of four . |
| 17 | She prayed that the landlord of the Swan was right and that she only had a mile or two to cover . |
| 18 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 19 | She said this stiffly , not wanting to be accused of bragging — something else that had happened to her when she was a child , and she just stated a fact , or answered a question . |
| 20 | He saw her shoulders shift , and she unconsciously raised a hand to undo the buttons of the bodice of the dark pelisse she still wore over an equally dark gown , the top of which was now revealed , made high to the throat . |
| 21 | and she willingly made a gift of it to her mother in sincere , if perhaps slightly exasperated affection . |
| 22 | ‘ I gave her some poached chicken breast at lunchtime and she even managed a couple of scones for tea . ’ |
| 23 | The Society presented her with a beautiful flower arrangement and she also received a selection of other gifts including a small tea service . |
| 24 | The Society presented her with a beautiful flower arrangement and she also received a selection of other gifts including a small tea service . |
| 25 | Birds nested in the eighteenth-century ballroom but the chapel was carefully maintained and she also retained a butler and a chauffeur for the Rolls-Royce . |
| 26 | And she also has a sense of humour . |
| 27 | He is a successful business executive with all the trappings heavy responsibilities , large car , mobile phone — and she also has a career , with professional qualifications . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Smith is a model and she also runs a shop in Solihull ; coincidence does n't go that far , Miss Adams . ’ |
| 29 | The Irish National League asked her to witness evictions taking place in Donegal and she soon acquired a reputation as a charismatic force . |
| 30 | The melodrama of it appealed to her sense of the ridiculous , and she hastily stifled a laugh as a youth passing inside gave her an odd look . |