Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 2 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 3 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 4 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 5 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 6 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 7 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 8 | She propelled her to a low wall and sat her down beside her suitcase . |
| 9 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 10 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 11 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 12 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 13 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 14 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 15 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 16 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 17 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 18 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 19 | She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down . |
| 20 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 21 | She laid everything in an untidy heap in the leather box . |
| 22 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |
| 23 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 24 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 25 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 26 | Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ? |
| 27 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 28 | Relieved of her professional role , she manifested herself as an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne . |
| 29 | Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone . |
| 30 | Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing . |