Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] she [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 She imagined it might settle down if she removed her brassière , but what if Dotty noticed and made some personal remark about her growth ?
2 The big bag they had brought for the goose caught between her legs and almost threw her down but she recovered her balance , her feet slipping and sliding .
3 Miss Coltman said Paula told her Sandra was due to move in but she put her foot down .
4 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
5 There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married .
6 Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job .
7 She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name .
8 I done it on Jame and Michael and and you know the part where she pulls him over and she flicks her leg back so he flies
9 She was shaking all over but she held her ground .
10 From time to time her voice trailed off and she became her grief , heavy as a stone .
11 I forgot to close the deck hatch when the squall — ’ Her voice tailed off and she moved her shoulders briefly .
12 She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral .
13 At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat .
14 She stared in anger at the old man 's face , at his eyes which goggled anxiously at hers , then roved off when she met his look , his lips which caved in on his gums and mumbled and tightened as though he was always eating .
15 she started playing , she just playing up cos she banged her head at Tracy 's .
16 His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts .
17 Reid picked her up and she put her face into the hollow of his shoulder , both arms fast about his neck .
18 Heather Boxer says she makes them do the washing up and she enjoys their company .
19 I sat up and she withdrew her hand .
20 Mary 's father was frosty with her because she did n't have an abortion , right up until she brought her son back from the hospital .
21 Susan had looked up as she felt his glance and had smiled towards him before moving to the group by the window .
22 Sharon 's face lights up as she hears his admission of love .
23 A woman , intensely reading a magazine in the corner , gave him a quick thumbs up as she caught his gaze .
24 She only glanced up when she felt his shadow fall across her .
25 He lay back and she stretched her body over his , leaning to his mouth and parting his lips with her tongue .
26 Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness .
27 And then she went for him , her voice trembling , her eyes staring with sudden hate , all the Latin in her coming out as she ripped his hand from her shoulder .
28 With a sob she drew her mouth from his and cried out as she threw her head back .
29 She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones .
30 ‘ Your nephew asked me if I was the one you were going to marry , ’ she blurted out as she averted her eyes from the probing intentness of his .
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