Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard phoned and she told him about it , omitting the part about her offer of a donation . |
| 2 | Defries winced as she pulled herself to her feet . |
| 3 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 4 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 5 | On Oct. 9 , shortly after appearing before a special tribunal [ see below ] , she accused him of " naked aggression " against the judiciary , and added that she regarded him as her main opponent . |
| 6 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 7 | At last the little flame flared and she set it to the paper , watching the end blacken , smoulder and curl as it burned . |
| 8 | Dolly cackled as she dropped it into her dustpan . |
| 9 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 10 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 11 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 13 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 14 | But she had to admit that , realistically , he probably meant that she annoyed him beyond measure and that he was hard put to it to treat her civilly . |
| 15 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 16 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 17 | Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was the temporary lodger whom the police arrested when , many months after the burglary , the original owner of the valuables thought that she recognized her from the description given by the shop owner of the person from whom she had bought the jewellery . |
| 18 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 19 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 20 | She opened it frantically , half wrenching the door off its hinges , and looked down , screaming as the expected room disappeared and she saw nothing except a terrifying precipice and below , lying crashed and sprawled on the rocks , Mark . |
| 21 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 22 | Emily Davison died when she threw herself under the King 's horse during the 1913 Derby . |
| 23 | ‘ We were worried stiff , ’ she chided as she bustled us into the kitchen . |
| 24 | You know I thought when she explained it to me , not like some people think it 's dirty , I thought it was wonderful . |
| 25 | He looked so gorgeous that she tripped as she reached him in her high red heels , and landed against his hard chest with a gasp of shocked pleasure . |
| 26 | The day had seemed longer than usual , Claudia thought as she let herself into her flat with a sigh of relief . |
| 27 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 28 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 29 | Ashi smiled as she knotted it at her throat . |
| 30 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |