Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] she [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an awkward moment at the breakfast-table when she asked him why he was wearing his Sunday suit . |
| 2 | The Queen paused briefly to chat with children from the base as she made her way to view a specially prepared static display of the Corps ' role in providing technical and logistical support to the army . |
| 3 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 4 | His ring sparkled on her finger , lit by the flames of a fire in the grate ; Paul had the fancy that she turned her fingers deliberately , enjoying the ring 's brilliance and the evidence it gave of prosperity and caste . |
| 5 | Zena Murray had seen on television that beauty queens used the trick so she figured it would work for her . |
| 6 | Why Martha transferred the money before she put her apron on I do n't know — I suppose it 's just that everyone has their own little routines for doing things . |
| 7 | The woman had no alternative but to hand over the money because she felt her baby 's life was at risk . |
| 8 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 9 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 10 | Hitchcock wanted her for The Birds but she turned him down . |
| 11 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |
| 12 | He then asked if she was prepared for the parting and she told him , ‘ Willingly , John , in such a cause as this . ’ |
| 13 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 14 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 15 | She marked the paths of birds and insects , pointed to the homes of lizards and carried a fishing line which she would occasionally cast , watching for the rough bobbin to lurch , winding in a small , flat saafi fish which danced on the hook until she released it and tossed it back . |
| 16 | Franca had her pride , and part of making her situation endurable must be the fiction that she endured it , if not cheerfully , at least stoically . |
| 17 | Eddie said she was very meticulous about counting the sketches as she put them away . ’ |
| 18 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 19 | Tom 's mother was highly critical of the way the mainstream school was handling him but agreed to the assessment because she felt it might help him . |
| 20 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 21 | There was a pile of logs and some firelighters and paper in a large basket in the hearth , and Preston started to pile them in the grate while she continued her explorations in the garden . |
| 22 | And the mouth pouting , eyes full of mischief , and the breasts popping out under the sweater as she tugged it over her head . |
| 23 | Small gold hoop earrings caught the light as she turned her head . |
| 24 | He waved a languid hand ; the pale material of his sleeve caught the light and she turned her head fractionally toward it . |
| 25 | She turned her face away from the light when she heard his voice , but Jan Coggan had also recognized her . |
| 26 | He loved the way she smelt , the atmosphere with which she surrounded you , the way she gestured , the ear-rings that sparkled in the light when she turned her head quickly . |
| 27 | I made the tea and she drank it , then she continued her story . |
| 28 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 29 | There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax . |
| 30 | Rachel 's hands were white-knuckled on the window-sill as she pictured it , vivid images burning into her mind . |