Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [conj] she " in BNC.

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1 Were they looked after by servants or grandparents while she prayed , sobbed and travelled ?
2 Ten days later , at eight-thirty in the morning of Wednesday , 22nd January , Robyn Penrose set off in a snowstorm and an ill humour to begin her stint as the University of Rummidge Faculty of Arts Industry Year Shadow , or URFAIYS as she was designated in memoranda emanating from the Vice-Chancellor 's Office .
3 And this women gives talks and demonstrations or courses and she also had some other courses on paper quilling , gift wrapping and bow making , cracker making and patch work .
4 ‘ She was very happy at home — there had been no arguments or rows and she was her usual happy self when she went out , ’ said Robert .
5 She has no winter coat or boots and she eats meat once a week , " and by the end of the month it 'll be beans on toast or a can of soup between us .
6 It was more interesting to him than high-tensile or daffodils so she tried to explain the principle until his interest faded .
7 She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen .
8 Her parents felt that she was being difficult and kept presenting her with toys and activities that she could not do .
9 I 've written her notes and notes and notes and she 's never answered one of them .
10 Sidney Lee states that when Lambarde was presented to Queen Elizabeth I she complained to him that Shakespeare 's Richard II was played forty times earlier that year with seditious intent in streets and houses and she viewed it with suspicion .
11 Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week .
12 it 's just about dark and Harriet 's hair flies out and glimmers as she moves her head .
13 She still has another year of injections and tablets before she 's fully recovered .
14 No more was said except for Mum 's moans and groans as she struggled to get the bedding upstairs to the attic .
15 Alice Walker changes Celie 's dialect , vocabulary , thoughts and views as she grows up .
16 She flung herself at friendship and blurted her thoughts and feelings , jokes and secrets till she had no flora in the lining of her inner spaces to help her absorb her experiences slowly , nutritiously .
17 Her name and her address ; and a couple of visits , dates and times that she had made .
18 The residents of Monte Samana were just beginning to stir , and the smell of strong Spanish coffee wafted from open windows and balconies as she drove along the flower-edged lanes of the complex and out of the main gate towards the village .
19 If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say .
20 One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police .
21 She whistled , hitching up her skirt and petticoats so she could run more easily down the tradesman 's path to the gate .
22 When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel .
23 In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being .
24 The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched .
25 All the loving and giving of small luxuries and necessities that she had not thought of herself , and the expected regularity of their attendance at those sumptuous Sunday luncheons , encroached dangerously on the precious isolation of life at Kileady .
26 This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock .
27 In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her .
28 The bearing of such a burden , as one historian has recently remarked , suggests that in moving from lightweight to heavyweight in the European balance of power while simultaneously acquiring an overseas empire , Britain owed as much to her clerks and administrators as she did to her soldiers , sailors , generals and admirals .
29 She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her .
30 ‘ Really and truly , ’ Laura told them both firmly , heedless of her smart dress and shoes as she knelt on the damp sand , her arms placed warmly about their two anxious figures .
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