Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 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 .
3 From her meetings she will formulate a landscape plan .
4 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 .
5 Maureen Moore was nineteen , and when she had finished her qualifications she would become a music teacher .
6 After the visions she 'd become a shepherdess of souls , leading them to Our Lady and to repentance .
7 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 .
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