Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] she [vb past] [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 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 3 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 4 | Panic-struck once she saw her mistake she immediately confronted Bernard with the truth , apologized and offered her resignation . |
| 5 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 6 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 10 | It was as a pioneer woman journalist that she earned her most lasting renown , sometimes using the pseudonym ‘ Filomena ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Not bad , she thought with a fierce kind of glee that she knew she did n't dare to show . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 18 | No sooner were the words out of her mouth than she regretted them . |
| 19 | The persistent pinging assaulted her ears and she forced it into her head . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her mind was floating over turquoise waves and she narrowed her eyes against an ocean that sparkled silver all the way to the horizon . |
| 25 | Anthony 's voice opened Julia 's eyes and she saw her sister-in-law standing in the doorway wearing a most remarkable dress . |
| 26 | Ben looked into her eyes and she lowered them and turned her head away . |
| 27 | Tears of pride stung her eyes and she brushed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 28 | Tears of self-pity escaped from her eyes and she brushed them away angrily . |
| 29 | Her hair was in her eyes and she brushed it away impatiently . |
| 30 | The tears jumped into her eyes and she bent her head , hugging her arms to her breasts . |