Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
| 2 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 3 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 4 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 5 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 6 | On the reverse of each plate is Cicely Mary Barker 's original poem that she penned for each fairy . |
| 7 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 8 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 9 | I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day . |
| 10 | When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family … |
| 11 | I do n't know how he found out that she belonged to that lass , but find out he has . |
| 12 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
| 13 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 14 | Before that she worked for several companies in Taiwan , the last one being Coca-Cola . |
| 15 | It was , it was bad that she used to those draws that bad that after so long you 'd see him go all white and then you 'd gradually see round the crutch then so , more |
| 16 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 17 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 18 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 19 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 20 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 21 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 22 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 23 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 24 | Rose knew many of the people on the platform even though she had spent half her life in Scotland and she responded to each greeting with warmth , careful to watch that her friendliness did not grate on Moran . |
| 25 | No cos the health visitor , she , cos I asked her about sterilizing , and , and she said with all teats they should be sterilized no matter what age they are |
| 26 | And she came on horseback and she came over that road making for , |
| 27 | And she came in this day with these flowers and spoke to me and I did n't know who she was |
| 28 | After the transmission of the film , which conferred instant celebrity status , the economic situation improved dramatically , and she invested in more cattle to boost her income . |
| 29 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 30 | The knife came again , and she chopped with both hands at Ma Katz 's wrist , satisfied by the crunch of breaking bones . |