Example sentences of "she [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , let 'er have the rope , Dick . |
| 2 | ‘ Bessie was 'avin' ter do the servin' an' yer know I do n't like 'er be'ind the counter more than need be . |
| 3 | She insists the gruelling teaching process is fun but warns : ‘ Patience is most important for the training . ’ |
| 4 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 5 | She slanted a challenging look at Claudia . |
| 6 | Maria 's heart clenched as she slanted a look at his grim countenance . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's — it 's eerie in the bush at night , ’ she whispered a little shakily . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I can stay here , ’ she whispered an entreaty . |
| 9 | She whispered the words aloud : " He will share your bed and possess your body . " |
| 10 | She whispered the words . |
| 11 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 12 | Erm , and then Marie 's , to pick up , she gets me milk erm er fo sick of running out of milk and she goes every , twice a week to , to get er , main shopping and just milk on Friday , and she said oh I can get you milk so |
| 13 | and er , like she said are n't you Vicky and she goes no miss , mm , you ca n't be a nurse till your eighteen |
| 14 | And she goes no Miss . |
| 15 | goes out in Kings Cross and sh , men walk , a man walks past she goes the man goes Aargh aargh ! |
| 16 | Her eyes rounded and she hugged every scrap of blanket she could around her body , making a barrier to his hot eyes . |
| 17 | She hugged the child to her . |
| 18 | She hugged the girder . |
| 19 | She hugged the Rodney to her breast , fearful lest they take it away from her . |
| 20 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 21 | Fielding it with one hand , she sobered , and , putting her glass down on the fender , she hugged the cushion on her knees . |
| 22 | Though ‘ attraction ’ was an anaemic description of her feelings , still she hugged the words to her like some priceless gift . |
| 23 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 24 | Quickly she stowed the silver away , put up the lampshade and left the others on the table . |
| 25 | It was a measure of Cecilia 's character that , unlike most people , she experienced no schadenfreude about this , felt no secret pleasure in the superiority of her circumstances over her friend 's , but sincerely regretted Daphne 's inferior home and reduced income . |
| 26 | She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 27 | As Louise moved away she experienced a powerful urge to grab the massager and tug it close to her secret places again but she did not dare . |
| 28 | Wandering around looking at the different displays , she experienced a strange sensation of being drawn towards something . |
| 29 | She experienced a lot of pain and perhaps always would ; her privations may have damaged her health permanently . |
| 30 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |