Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then ran and slipped and ran again , past the church , between the dignified houses on the new Bristol Bridge , dodging the tollkeepers who marvelled at her speed , and over to the Welsh Back where horse-drawn sleds wove between towers of kegs , hanks of rope , sprawling sacks and the beached masts of ships , and where she knew she could shrink unnoticed into a warren of warehouses , entries and cellars . |
| 2 | For he 'd known she would n't go , that he was perfectly safe , that she was not the type to impose herself where she knew she was n't wanted . |
| 3 | We went through many dark passages until we reached a door , where she left me , taking her candle with her . |
| 4 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 5 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 6 | Where she left you . ’ |
| 7 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 8 | I do n't where she got them and I did n't ask ! |
| 9 | Oh , she had a pretty good idea : she only needed to go back to Felix Road or even Nelson Close , where she said she lived , to find out . |
| 10 | He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help . |
| 11 | At the station , where she drove him , though he had been in the habit of regularly walking there , she refused to kiss him . |
| 12 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 13 | The old memories were stuffed back into the dark , locked cupboard at the very back of her mind , where she kept them safely shut away . |
| 14 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 15 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 16 | There was no tea break but Mr John and a woman , who she thought might have been a chaperone , would go into a little room at the end , where she fancied they had a nip or two . |
| 17 | At the Red Cross warehouse , we were met by Stoyaeka who drove us to her house where she gave us a meal of soup , bread , stew and dumplings , all washed down with a very palatable local red wine . |
| 18 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 19 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 20 | She was so beautiful that I just melted and we went to this tiny little room , where she washed me . |
| 21 | So then she cut through the dining room and into the lounge , where she found him sitting in front of the big Sony TV . |
| 22 | She had come to terms with Newley 's affair with Arabella ; she believed that she had her husband precisely where she wanted him . |
| 23 | Once she had got Phoebe back where she wanted her , the radiographer manhandled Phoebe 's breasts , without interest , between two cold plates . |
| 24 | ( a ) some poems by Emily Dickinson , which you analyse ; ( b ) a bibliography ( list of books and articles ) , to find out what has been written by and on this poet ; ( c ) one or more critical articles on Emily Dickinson ; ( d ) a biography of the writer ; ( e ) a dictionary of symbolism , to look up some of the symbols she uses ; ( f ) a concordance to the works of Emily Dickinson ( this is a list of all the words she used , and where she used them ) . |
| 25 | Or she thought she meant herself . |
| 26 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it would not be possible to ask the victim if he or she enjoyed it . |
| 28 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 29 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 30 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |