Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 2 | He found her walking along a path through the fields . |
| 3 | I helped her keep up the house . |
| 4 | In a great gesture of trust , Josie let her switch off the lights unsupervised . |
| 5 | The police advised her to take out a summons against her neighbours . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 7 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 8 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 9 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 10 | They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed . |
| 11 | This was the business end of her trip but before she started she wandered along a crowded beach , taking photographs of the sands , waterskiers and windsurfers , the tree-lined promenade and the backdrop of mountains beyond . |
| 12 | Yes we got her moved out a little bit earlier . |
| 13 | But a perverse urge to take advantage of his rare willingness to be seen out with her made her bite back the words , and she went off to discard her shorts in favour of a slim straight dress , the fine cotton-knit a subtle sage green . |
| 14 | Something inside Donna 's mind , some shred of self-preservation , made her shoot out a hand . |
| 15 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 16 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 17 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 18 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 19 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
| 20 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 21 | I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight ! |
| 22 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 23 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
| 24 | ‘ I might tell you I persuaded her to cut down the list Buckmaster had drawn up of people to be informed . |
| 25 | Theda threw her a grateful look , and hurried after Miss Merchiston , whose familiarity with the steep staircase enabled her to keep up a cracking pace . |
| 26 | Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms . |
| 27 | Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ? |
| 28 | — Did she put up a fight , then ? |
| 29 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 30 | Jenny , of Willenhall , West Midlands , said she dreamed up the dish after she visited her boyfriend in hospital and found a strange girl at his bedside . |