Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 2 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 3 | And next year she has set herself the personal goal of raising £500,000 . |
| 4 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 5 | She was sure that at some point she 'd given someone the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing . |
| 6 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 7 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 8 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 9 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 10 | For months , back home in Melbourne , she had wondered what The Big City on the other side of the world would look like . |
| 11 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 12 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 13 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 14 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 15 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 16 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 17 | Now she 's got it the other way about |