Example sentences of "something she " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange — hard — to think about something she took for granted . |
| 2 | Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door . |
| 3 | This is something she feels strongly about and she tends to become even more animated than usual when trying to articulate her philosophy . |
| 4 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 5 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 6 | If she wanted to give up on something she did . |
| 7 | She is pleased at the rewarding relationship she has with him , though it 's something she has had to fight to keep . |
| 8 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 9 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 10 | ‘ She must have been hoping they 'd ask for something she could give . |
| 11 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 12 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |
| 13 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 14 | It was something she had n't thought about . |
| 15 | It hardly ever happened that someone said something she identified with . |
| 16 | The idea of being able to control things and people was something she could hardly imagine . |
| 17 | The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted . |
| 18 | We had talked already over the telephone about her radical decision a few months ago to begin wearing the traditional Muslim dress , and how relieved she had felt since changing what she wore , feeling that she was ‘ expressing something she had felt all along ’ . |
| 19 | Kylie hardly drinks , her occasional tipple is a pina colada , so that is not something she can resort to in order to overcome her nerves . |
| 20 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 21 | She could not decide if this was something she cared about or not . |
| 22 | She was quoting now , it seemed to Sam , something she 'd probably read and never really taken in before . |
| 23 | It 's an old picture , ’ he added in an incompetent explanation of something she had n't asked . |
| 24 | She 'd have a natter with him if he were , something she often did on her half-days . |
| 25 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 26 | Something she did n't recognize flashed in his eyes . |
| 27 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 28 | As she cast her mind about , she realized that there might be something she was especially fitted for . |
| 29 | There must be something she ate that would act as a cover for paraquat or whatever he was going to use . |
| 30 | Suddenly something she had heard her daddy read out from a newspaper flashed back to her . |