Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 2 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 3 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 4 | ‘ I sometimes feel a great sense of loss and disappointment that she never saw me grow up . |
| 5 | A few words of friendship , some indication that she now bore no grudge about the job . |
| 6 | It was , however , a totally new experience for her to be accused of a crime that she definitely had not committed . |
| 7 | But washing her hair was such torture that she eventually decided that , whatever the expense , she would pay a weekly visit to a hairdresser . |
| 8 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 9 | But no sooner had Theda left in her carriage than she immediately sought out Lady Usk . |
| 10 | Pushing her back into her chair , he gave her back her glass and it was a measure of her distress that she actually reached out and took it . |
| 11 | Yvonne could n't find the fish brooch that she always wore for funerals . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's convinced he 's innocent of Angy 's murder and she only wants me to play detective and find the real killer ! |
| 14 | A picture of the rat crossed her mind and she instinctively rubbed the back of her hand across her cheek . |
| 15 | ‘ My daughter goes back to school this week after the half-term break and she really wants to know Penny is all right before she goes . |
| 16 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 17 | That confusion if she ever brings her in work and she can take . |
| 18 | Karen went to a wedding and er somebody 's wedding and she still has a dress . |
| 19 | He slipped it into the pocket of her skirt and she hardly knew how to thank him . |
| 20 | And mine 's is the , the one , the tape cos she just records the whole room . |
| 21 | Show her a horse and she happily mounted it . |
| 22 | I once said to him , Mother 's in the lavatory but she never locks the door . ’ |
| 23 | Since that first morning at the gravel pit she had not once admitted her fear but she always looked white and tense and , although she could manage a few strokes now , she swam clumsily and jerkily , keeping her head high . |
| 24 | Mum never has more than £10.00 in her purse because she always pays for everything by cheque , |
| 25 | She heard the break before she actually saw the child who had fallen at the winning end of a tug-of-war rope . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you would wish to know , sir , that Her Ladyship is making good progress and I should like to take her further afield to tackle typical hunting country , so that she may get plenty of practice before she actually attends a meet . ’ |
| 27 | I could well imagine her lecturing : she would be wearing a mortar-board and gown perhaps , her head on one side as she usually held it when talking ; and her eyes would be twinkling , as she held forth in that clear , incisive , ‘ educated ’ voice of hers . |
| 28 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 29 | When she awoke the next morning , however , she was able to put all such thoughts firmly from her mind as she simply strengthened her resolve to keep her relationship with David Markham purely on a professional basis . |
| 30 | There was no foothold and Maggie gave a cry of fear as she too felt the ground give way beneath them as they slid over the edge towards the lake . |