Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was born in Aberdeen and was a student at the city 's university where she gained her MA in 1969 . |
| 2 | Actuality of warden describing the snake followed by interview where she sez it 's the first time she'stouched a grass snake and slow worms . |
| 3 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 4 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 5 | Panic-struck once she saw her mistake she immediately confronted Bernard with the truth , apologized and offered her resignation . |
| 6 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 7 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 8 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 10 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 11 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 12 | It was as a pioneer woman journalist that she earned her most lasting renown , sometimes using the pseudonym ‘ Filomena ’ . |
| 13 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , wife of the Ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople , was so impressed with the results of this folk practice by the Sultan 's Greek subjects that she had her children treated and introduced fashionable society to its advantages in 1721 ; as much for the protection of complexion as for the preservation of health . |
| 14 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 15 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 16 | That 's right , and she , she retired Friday so she said I must get you in before Friday cos I 'm going round Thursday morning |
| 17 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 18 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 19 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 20 | No sooner were the words out of her mouth than she regretted them . |
| 21 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 22 | The persistent pinging assaulted her ears and she forced it into her head . |
| 23 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 24 | He looks at Candice and she puckers her lips , perhaps ironically . |
| 25 | Fred cut into the pieces of meat with a vengeance , fighting the urge to shake the chattering Bessie Chandler by the scruff of her neck until she snuffed it . |
| 26 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 27 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 28 | And , ah , oh aye , and she says they 're out playing and the s and she says you know what kids are like Jean , and she says like I would n't try even to say to my kids not to go near them because you would n't tell them because they 're only kids and she says they 're like playing in the square and she says like I would David and down here you know when I was coming down |
| 29 | Er or shall I leave her a piece up there and give her her tea cos she knows it 's ready ? |
| 30 | Her mind was floating over turquoise waves and she narrowed her eyes against an ocean that sparkled silver all the way to the horizon . |