Example sentences of "[coord] she [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 2 | She shifted yet further away when he turned around to face her and she saw where the course of the chain originated from . |
| 3 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 4 | She did n't know how she 'd come by it , and she 'd only the vaguest memories of her journey to this place . |
| 5 | It was her ‘ wait ’ and she sped down the stone staircase ahead of the lumbering old man and snatched up the receiver . |
| 6 | And she knew now the reason she had n't wanted the doctor , knew it was because she was afraid they 'd take Jenny away from her because she was n't fit to look after her . |
| 7 | And she told how the boy brought the dog his food . |
| 8 | And she told how the tot : |
| 9 | ‘ Have I not reason ? ’ she demanded , as the years seemed to roll away , and she felt again the anguish his desertion had inflicted . |
| 10 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 11 | He was brooding and she had n't the faintest doubt about why . |
| 12 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 13 | And she drove out the image and her own overwhelming feeling of terrible loss , by concentrating her mind desperately on what Gazzer was saying . |
| 14 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 15 | I tapped on the glass , and she wound down the window . |
| 16 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 17 | Like that right , and she walked down the bus and this , the policeman said to the bus driver , oh you 'll have to hang on a wee minute because I have to speak to this woman here . |
| 18 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
| 19 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
| 20 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |
| 21 | The bang came again but softer , and she made out the squeak of rusty hinges against the din of the stormy night . |
| 22 | She felt rage flood through her and she fought down the impulse to scream — that was just what he was waiting for . |
| 23 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 24 | Her husband was a very good tenor , the Baron , he sang , and she wrote out the parts for piano , and various other instruments . |
| 25 | He nodded and she tapped out the number . |
| 26 | He nodded and she tapped out the Sheldrake practice number . |
| 27 | She was educated in the household of Henry Hastings , third Earl of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , president of the council in the north , and she learned there the Puritan habits of self-examination and regular religious exercises which she later practised in her own household . |
| 28 | And she remembered then the old adage tossed around the dinner table by her parents ' friends , when the drink had loosened their tongues , and things were said that stuck in the mind like grit in the eye . |
| 29 | When her mother died Constance had turned slightly vegetarian and announced that she would never have any children since her mum had had ten and put her off the whole idea , and she gave away the chickens . |
| 30 | And she pulled up the weeds and she pulled up the teasels . |