Example sentences of "she [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 2 | She did not trust the count even though she admitted that he had a strange effect on her . |
| 3 | METERMAID Tina Fuchs , 21 , is to marry a millionaire she met when she slapped a parking ticket on his Mercedes . |
| 4 | The lady was being offered a gas mask by Carter and gladly took it , just before she fainted as they entered the smoke filled floor . |
| 5 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 6 | She managed to slip the skirt over her head gingerly and settle it in place with its ribbon ties , but she realised that she needed a maid to lace up the front of the separate bodice for her . |
| 7 | Worry about finding his half of the mortgage must be getting to her , she realised as she left the kitchen , knowing that just thinking of her brother was not going to conjure him home to pay his dues . |
| 8 | And the house no longer seemed to be on the defensive , she realised as she parked the car . |
| 9 | ‘ I went to the old house where she lived and I saw the paintings . |
| 10 | Does she think that I have no feelings , or have been struck deaf because I stand by the kitchen door , silent ? |
| 11 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 12 | In cross-examination she agreed that she gave the police a statement and , when asked how many statements she gave , replied , ‘ I gave one statement to the investigating officer … the day after Paulette was murdered . ’ |
| 13 | She agreed and we started the Mulch Gallery together in 1960 in South Molton Street . |
| 14 | She whimpers as I twist a little harder and drag her to the cloakroom , to keep out of Merchant 's way . |
| 15 | In the end he always gave what she asked but he resented the giving . |
| 16 | ‘ Where are you sleeping ? ’ she asked as we made the front door . |
| 17 | Got your brolly , Breeze ? ’ she asked as they neared the door . |
| 18 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 19 | ‘ Any news about who did in that poor lady that you found , Mrs Craig ? ’ she asked as she took the money . |
| 20 | ‘ Are we eating out or in tonight ? ’ she asked as she took the sopping sponge from his hand and squeezed it murderously into the sink . |
| 21 | She asked if he knew a ‘ vile jacobin villain ’ who had led astray a young man from her parish called Burnett . |
| 22 | The intertwined limbs against a dark tree she passed as she left the park seemed beautiful to her . |
| 23 | Honestly , he 's driving me insane ! ’ she exclaimed as she stirred the Aga into reluctant life . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , it 's a reply to my fax from Beryl ! ’ she exclaimed as she scanned the first paragraph . |
| 25 | ‘ Why , thank you ! ’ she exclaimed as he laid the plate before her . |
| 26 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 27 | After a couple of false starts , Maxine was actually able to relax relatively well and she found that she had no problems about imagining a pleasant scene in her mind provided the visualization was guided by me . |
| 28 | Then she found that she had no breath , for all the breath went out of her body when he tossed her down on to her mattress . |
| 29 | Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues : notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava . |
| 30 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |