Example sentences of "and she [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go back and sit down again , and she takes a hold of my hand and squeezes it like she 's saying sorry or summat . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps she 's been thinking things out and she feels a bit sorry for you . ’ |
| 3 | fruit and she eats a lot of salad cos she loves salad you know |
| 4 | And she eats a load of cheese |
| 5 | Few men could match super-talented Julie 's earning power , and she does a job she enjoys — most of the time . |
| 6 | The shame of having her ‘ dirty linen ’ ritually washed in public in this way by representatives of the community is too great for the woman and she suffers a stroke from which she dies shortly afterwards . |
| 7 | And she pushes a pushchair and she 's got a little lad about ? |
| 8 | I send my secretary there an SOS and she spends a day clearing up and dumping my old files , generally tidying me up as well . |
| 9 | And she gets a cabbage and she 's beating it up , was she ? |
| 10 | Her weekly pension is £57 and she gets a work pension of £52 each month . |
| 11 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 12 | Her little eyes look up at me so trustfully , and she sleeps a lot and rarely cries . |
| 13 | Colin was just saying , I mean , his wife works in the office and she hears a lot of what 's going on . |
| 14 | Few can deliver high notes of such ringing clarity or trills so impeccably controlled , and she has a chest register many contraltos would envy . |
| 15 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 16 | There 's Patch , because she has a patch , and she has a daughter , Bunty . |
| 17 | The Guinness book of theatre quotes , which costs £7.99 , is compiled by Michele Brown who readily agrees that actors and authors are every bit as cruel about actors as critics , viz Richard Burton talking about his wife Liz Taylor : ‘ She has a double chin , her legs are too short and she has a pot belly . ’ |
| 18 | And she has a science degree . |
| 19 | Her career has hit new heights and she has a movie due out soon . |
| 20 | Her parents see her regularly and she has a circle of friends . |
| 21 | She is an elderly lady , she has had one stroke , and she has a personality disorder . |
| 22 | ‘ She is Ma 's daughter , after all , Carrie , and she has a right to know , ’ Julia said . |
| 23 | ‘ The woman was disgusted to find that we did not have a microwave oven for her to polish , and she has a doctor 's certificate to say she can not bend down . |
| 24 | She seems very masculine , with short hair , jeans and heavy boots and she has a sort of butch look I ca n't describe . |
| 25 | As the years go by , Ursula 's body becomes a bore , and she experiences a fear of ageing : ‘ I shall have to die fairly young , because I wo n't be able to live with the infirmities of old age . ’ |
| 26 | Well I think some interesting work has been done in Israel erm , a woman called Dr. Ophraelin erm and she runs a stress prevention centre where she 's working right out in the community , which is something , you know , I particularly am interested in , erm empowering people , empowering parents , helping them to recognize their skills , erm just giving them a sense of their own self worth . |
| 27 | But she ca n't say more because her three-year-old son is in Moscow and she needs a job when she gets back there . |
| 28 | And she makes a lot of noise . |
| 29 | From Littleover , Dawn offering that lady 's shell jacket , size twelve to fourteen , lady 's shell jacket size twelve to fourteen , cost fifteen and she wants a fiver . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , Donna was going crazy with the generator out and the phone down , and this princess says loudly she 's Matthew Blake 's fiancée and she wants a room , right now . |