Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Cross , 73 , the wife of the war hero Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross , was repeatedly struck with antique fire irons in the shop in Pimlico , south London , where she had worked part-time for ten years . |
| 2 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 3 | And , although she had come up with the idea of a visit to Oxford very much on the spur of the moment , it was n't a bad one . |
| 4 | Given a new name , she got a new nationality , new passport — a new life that was far more fundamental a change than she had managed just by defecting . |
| 5 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 6 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 7 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 8 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 9 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 10 | ‘ For this same reason once she had caught up with her husband ( and been sent quickly home as being very undutiful and immoral travelling about alone and not remaining in her place at home against his return ) it would have been inconceivable for her to go to the police . |
| 11 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
| 12 | Kirsty she said , I said , I said Foxy cos she 's got off with Foxy |
| 13 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd have had a visit if she 'd gone straight to the nearest phone , ’ Goldman observed . |
| 15 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 16 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 17 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |
| 18 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |
| 19 | She with , it 's true , Janey 's help , cooked , served , washed up , cleaned , drove us here , there and everywhere , the doctor , school , the dentist , up to London for nerve-racking bouts of clothes shopping , she had the Nigels to stay , and laughed at the J ills at the garage and I 'd 've died if she 'd found out about Paul . |
| 20 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 21 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 22 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 23 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 24 | She could not refuse him , accordingly , and did not ; but more and more it was almost as if she had given in to Mr Poole 's demands ; one man was much like another . |
| 25 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 26 | It was almost as if she had forgotten how to . |
| 27 | Asked her if she 's signed on at Trevalle |
| 28 | What if she has run off with this Garry ? |
| 29 | KYLIE MINOGUE has split from her record company — because she got fed up of being treated like a money-making machine . |
| 30 | For years and years , her frailer beauty had made him feel physically famished for her , but he had generally subdued the longing because she seemed worn out with housework . |