Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] she [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 2 | She drew a line down the centre of Stella 's nose with a stick of No.5 and gestured she should rub it in . |
| 3 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 4 | As a matter of fact' — he frowned in concentration — ‘ I do recall her putting a matchbook in her handbag at one point and saying she would pass it on to Heather because she collected the things . |
| 5 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 6 | Isobel refused one , and watched him , knowing something was wrong , longing to speak , to burst out with her news , and knowing she must make herself wait . |
| 7 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
| 8 | ‘ She set higher store by emotional security ’ than her sister , ‘ and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant , far removed , as she thought , from father 's toughness and uncontrollability . ’ |
| 9 | Then Mum thanked them and said she would pay them later for their trouble and invited them to the funeral . |
| 10 | I gave her all the papers , and erm , she said well , and that meanwhile had , spoken to me on the phone , and said she would do what she could . |
| 11 | He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself . |
| 12 | Lynsey quickly remembered her fictitious ‘ dinner engagement ’ and said she would take her own car and follow him . |
| 13 | She gave no address and said she could do nothing more to help her mother . |
| 14 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 15 | She went upstairs to change after luncheon and then took herself to the chair by her bedroom hearth , and said she should want nothing further , all afternoon . |
| 16 | Her father thought that her glasses must need adjusting and said she should have her eyes tested , but no one made an appointment for her , so she did n't go . |
| 17 | When he said too readily , ‘ Yeah , could be , ’ she knew the blue haze of his need to reassure her , and wished she could believe him . |
| 18 | He put on his shirt and suggested she should wash herself at the sink . |
| 19 | could not temper itself , but needs she must bewray her outrageous lust , and in an inconvenient time of the year , despising all discommodities of the way and weather , and all danger of thieves , she betook herself headlong to her journey with such a company as no man of any honest degree would have adventured his life and his goods among them . |
| 20 | Mrs Hill does n't know if it will work , but says she 'll try anything to try to save her daughter 's life . |
| 21 | She agreed but thought she 'd record it anyway , just in case . |
| 22 | Fenella , hardly daring to speak , but knowing she must raise her voice above the treadmills , said , ‘ Where is — ’ And saw his eyes smile , as if to say : he is not here for the moment . |