Example sentences of "[conj] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz has been appointed customer services manager with Skipton Building Society , where she previously held a management post in the commercial lending department . |
| 2 | His hair was thick and warm , and her fingers revelled in the feel of it , creeping around the back of his skull where she half-heartedly tugged to bring his head back so that she no longer ached for his kisses to continue . |
| 3 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 4 | For an illustration see ex.5e from Zerlina 's Act 2 aria , where she caressingly comforts the battered Masetto . |
| 5 | Ms Robinson , of Harmire Road , Barnard Castle , took over the campaign reins more than three years ago and regards her appointment as something of a coup for the north where she also hopes one day to stage a regional conference . |
| 6 | She had been in the winning Nations Cup team in Drammen , Norway , where she also scored her first grand prix success , and , as a result of her achievements , was chosen to go with the British squad on the autumn circuit of North American shows , in Washington , New York and Toronto . |
| 7 | Her one fixation was fitness and she kept herself in peak physical condition by attending aerobic classes three times a week at the Rivereast Health Club on Second Avenue , where she also helped put housewives through their paces in the basic skills of karate . |
| 8 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 9 | Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes . |
| 10 | ‘ Where she always lived ; she never married . ’ |
| 11 | To the left , opposite the reception desk , in the parlour with the rubber plant and the lace half-curtains , where she sometimes had her breakfast ( if she was up before ten when Madame stopped serving it ) , she saw her grandfather , Sir Anthony Everard , erect against the window , with her young aunt his daughter beside him , Xanthe Everard , Miranda 's nursery playmate . |
| 12 | Paula spent most of her free time alone , window shopping , visiting News Theatres , where she sometimes watched the programme of cartoons twice round , and drinking endless cups of Espresso coffee in cafés and coffee houses . |
| 13 | Today she had brought sandwiches , as she wanted to spend her lunch hour writing personal letters , but she felt reluctant to reveal to this young man the name of the little restaurant near Westminster Abbey , run by gentlewomen , where she often lunched . |
| 14 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 15 | Although she came from a financially privileged background , her education was superficial , governesses being followed by day-schools , a brief interlude at King 's College , London , where she possibly read Latin , continental history , mathematics , and elementary science for two terms , and a year in Dresden . |
| 16 | Said waitress promptly decamps to the vacant love nest where she swiftly sets up home , insisting to the locals that she is Newton 's new spouse . |
| 17 | Then there was a third offer , where she now lives . |
| 18 | All accomplished — does it not seem plain ? — to bring her finally where she now rests . |
| 19 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 20 | Within two years , one of them dies , leaving the other one alone and friendless without support in a community he or she barely knows . |
| 21 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 22 | If a manager is in the A&R office at CBS , he or she rarely has access to anybody else in the company . |
| 23 | Each panel member should ensure that he or she thoroughly tests the case presented for project approval . |
| 24 | The interviewer is likely to start with some ideas to stimulate the informant to talk but beyond this he or she simply listens . |
| 25 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 26 | I argued a moment ago that if the student is to enter into his or her own work , and is to be committed to it , he or she simply has to be given the intellectual space — to a degree — to follow his or her own inclinations . |
| 27 | If a user wants to read all the news stories on say , Lloyd 's insurance , he or she simply types in the name on a computer keyboard and a complete list of stories appears on the screen in seconds . |
| 28 | The addition of colour , and specifically the facility to produce separations , is of substantial benefit to the professional graphic artist but , unless he or she already possesses a colour Macintosh II , is likely to be of little real benefit to the average user other than as a ‘ feature ’ to show off . |
| 29 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 30 | Whereas the adult is influenced by what he or she already knows or by what other people have been saying . |