Example sentences of "[coord] she [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs . |
| 2 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 3 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 4 | ‘ It was good of you to get in touch with me , Simon , ’ she murmured as he hooked down the loft-ladder and she followed him up into the roof space . |
| 5 | Her first major film part was in Grease 2 ( which flopped ) and she followed it up by playing Al Pacinos hard-faced , cocaine-snorting moll Elvira in the blockbuster Scar-face . |
| 6 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah ; she came to Uncle Hamish 's a couple of times , and she drove me back to Glasgow once . ’ |
| 8 | And she slammed it down on the desk . |
| 9 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 10 | It was a charming letter , a well-managed mixture of humility and boastfulness , and she sent it down to be typed with a feeling of smugness . |
| 11 | He fell into her arms without a sound , and she dragged him back into the storeroom . |
| 12 | He hesitated for a moment , and she took him up on it . |
| 13 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 14 | There was some kind of engraving on the medallion , and she took it over to the window for a closer look . |
| 15 | I let her share my house because she could only afford a tiny flat of her own , and she bosses me around as if she 's the one with the money . |
| 16 | Jamie 's prophetic words floated back to her and she flung herself on to the bed , staring at nothing , her body rigid with the tension of a woman in the grip of violent , unsated desire . |
| 17 | and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear |
| 18 | The little boy , sensing that his mother was upset , had come to stand by her and she lifted him on to her lap . |
| 19 | Her eyes drifted shut and she gave herself up to the kiss 's magic , her own lips even more gentle and tentative than his . |
| 20 | His lips seemed to draw out from her all that was sweet , all that was female , and she gave herself up to the moment with an abandon that shocked her . |
| 21 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 22 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 23 | It was a glimmering he had , but no more than that , and she cast him down from the height of her knowledge . |
| 24 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 25 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 26 | She had a mop of unruly brown hair , streaked with grey , and she swept it back from her face with an impatient movement that was wholly girlish . |
| 27 | The single door beside her slid open , and she pushed herself out of the carriage . |
| 28 | And she called him in on Sunday night , I mean I would n't have . |
| 29 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 30 | Eventually I stopped a very helpful young lady member of the staff , told her of my predicament and she guided me back to my table . |