Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Barney 's as thrilled as I am , ’ Cara replied , revealing that she had phoned him as soon as she 'd read her mail . |
| 2 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 3 | As a matter of course she picked them up , spearing them with her fork and not pausing until she had collected them all , and replaced the lid . |
| 4 | Yes , he was every bit as good looking as she had thought he was when she had glimpsed him from the catwalk . |
| 5 | But she was chronically untidy ; her clothes lying where she had dropped them , shoes kicked under the table , knickers and bras stuffed beneath cushions and Timmy 's toys littering the floor and table top . |
| 6 | But then an instant later she was wondering if she 'd imagined it , as Janice turned to beam a warm , glowing smile at Jake . |
| 7 | And then a great lurch and pit-pat pit-pat pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat-pat , racing until she wanted to hold it , rein it in , for this was surely worse , this would overtax the heart muscles , until it fell , exhausted , this was a race to death . |
| 8 | And besides , it occurred to her , her eyes narrowing as she continued to watch him , there was something different about him today , some quality that had definitely not been there yesterday , and that in her initial agitation had eluded her till now . |
| 9 | I keep on asking but she 's given me three different answers up to now ; that Deborah felt a bit depressed , that they 'd been out very late to the last show at the cinema in Via Romana which is very near to Piazza Pitti . ’ |
| 10 | Then one day she saw he was crying when she 'd told him , for the fiftieth time , that he was ugly . |
| 11 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 12 | He listened silently , simply nodding when she had finished He could never marry her and he had no right to stand in the way of any happiness she could find . |
| 13 | He did n't call her back , and when she turned he was sitting where she had left him , sprawled across the sofa surrounded by the solid things of his existence . |
| 14 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 15 | Thus I deceived her into thinking that she had scared me , and that I would take the necessary steps to ward off fatality . |
| 16 | Once again , she refrained from mentioning that she had asked them to keep the baby in the nursery as his presence in the room was upsetting her . |
| 17 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |