Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman who 'd come to complain about an allegedly dangerous horse she 'd sold her was threatened by stable-hands , and Central News was told that Mrs Burt was at a funeral and unavailable for comment . |
| 2 | P'raps she 's snuffed it . ’ |
| 3 | The physiotherapist may sit or stand in front of the patient , or may kneel on the plinth behind him , according to the type of guidance she intends to give him . |
| 4 | She felt even worse when she saw Stephen 's girlfriend in church , flourishing the engagement ring she had persuaded him to give her before he left to organise a factory in Newcastle for his firm . |
| 5 | Hank could not imagine how she managed to look so elegant in such an outfit ; the concepts of breeding and natural grace were unknown to him , and the quiet air of command she had scared him slightly . |
| 6 | Erm his sleeping she 's told him that she 's got this other man |
| 7 | not a tickly cough she 's got it 's a chesty cough . |
| 8 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 9 | A woman standing next to her thrust a baby into her arms , and with her usual politeness she stayed holding it long after she would have liked to go away . |
| 10 | I looked at the tin she 'd handed me . |
| 11 | Just before the end of term she had strained her back at college . |
| 12 | the fear she 'd lost him not the lack of doubt |
| 13 | In the moments when she had drifted nearer to consciousness she 'd thought she saw Corrie sitting on the bed , but when she had tried to lift her arms to gather her close the vision faded away . |
| 14 | With the bricks she had unearthed she started to build a path around the perimeter of the garden . |
| 15 | Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it . |
| 16 | For ten months she had watched it grow , had chosen the textures and colours of her own personality in which to clothe it . |
| 17 | But within six months she 'd known she had been right , and she had now reached the stage where she thoroughly enjoyed her work . |
| 18 | Outside the doorway , she paused , took a deep breath , and made the sort of entrance she 'd sworn she 'd never make again , her stride long and sensual , her head back so that her hair moved against her bare shoulders , her mouth curved into a soft , sexy smile . |
| 19 | ‘ He is an angel , ’ people told her and that winter she began to think he really might be . |
| 20 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 21 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 22 | Since I came from Scotland she had expected me to be ‘ large , raw-boned and ‘ dower ’ [ i.e. dour ] ' . |
| 23 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 24 | On a Thursday there was invariably some instruction about the lunch she 'd left him , since Thursday was her day for doing her charity with the elderly . |
| 25 | The moon was sailing in the sky , making her woebegone grimace , when she brought it to her , and Zenaida was torn , you could tell , between disappointment that brave Carmellina had fulfilled the impossible ordeal she had set her , and pleasure in the work of the dress itself , the fine weave , the dashing shape , the fall of the supple cloth , the nimble stitching . |
| 26 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 27 | I 'll tell you what it is , that 's since you 've had that ginger cat she 's done it . |
| 28 | After years of living out of suitcases in hotel rooms and tour coaches , finding the shabby old farmhouse deep in the country had seemed like heaven — the second she 'd spotted it , she 'd felt as though she had finally found home . |
| 29 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 30 | Next second she had plunged it into them . |