Example sentences of "things she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 2 | Jay hated the way he came out with things she whisked to the edges of her mind . |
| 3 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 4 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 5 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you , Nurse , ’ said Mrs. Fanshawe to show what a fine grasp of things she had . |
| 7 | She 's always sticking piccys on the wall — you know , things she cuts out of mags and that . |
| 8 | She also had a rich enjoyment of the comedy of human character , which was one of the things she shared with Lewis . |
| 9 | Stories appeared that were untrue , newspapers quoted things she had not said and she began to feel panicky . |
| 10 | Was there no end to the things she had n't heard of ? |
| 11 | Dot remembered one of the things she 'd overheard Mrs Hollidaye telling Gloria just before Loopy Lil crashed the tray . |
| 12 | What strange things she said . |
| 13 | In the fading light , she began to see things she 'd not noticed before . |
| 14 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 15 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 16 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 17 | One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village . |
| 18 | Alison 's story is extreme , but many of the things she says will strike a chord with other girls . |
| 19 | Someone doing all the things she is alleged to have done . |
| 20 | Of course , there were some things she could not know about . |
| 21 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 22 | It was a kind of masterpiece , one of the cleverest , most complete , things she 'd ever done . |
| 23 | I very rarely feel any curiosity about Christabel 's life — it 's funny I even feel a sort of squeamishness about things she might have touched , or places she might have been — it 's the language that matters , is n't it , it 's what went on in her mind — ’ |
| 24 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |
| 25 | Then she got into her thick outdoor coat and pulled on a small brown felt hat , picked up her bag and a list of things she was going to buy and went downstairs , still without seeing her mother . |
| 26 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 27 | De Beauvoir maintained rigid control over certain areas of her emotional and sexual life to the end of her days , yet some things she publicly , if not privately repressed have recently resurfaced . |
| 28 | It was one of the first things she put on the wall when they re-decorated the house . |
| 29 | Things she had ‘ never thought about until now ! ’ |
| 30 | All the things she described can in fact be done by chimpanzees . |