Example sentences of "and she [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened it frantically , half wrenching the door off its hinges , and looked down , screaming as the expected room disappeared and she saw nothing except a terrifying precipice and below , lying crashed and sprawled on the rocks , Mark . |
| 2 | Marc 's eyes opened a fraction wider and she saw something in his eyes that had n't been there before . |
| 3 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 4 | Her head came up and she looked him in the eye . |
| 5 | He placed it in her arms and she clutched it to her bosom , with her handbag , the toe of her right foot gingerly touching ground . |
| 6 | Sidney Lee states that when Lambarde was presented to Queen Elizabeth I she complained to him that Shakespeare 's Richard II was played forty times earlier that year with seditious intent in streets and houses and she viewed it with suspicion . |
| 7 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 8 | He obtained her signature but did not explain the document to her and she signed it without understanding it . |
| 9 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 10 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 11 | And she told him about it . |
| 12 | Richard phoned and she told him about it , omitting the part about her offer of a donation . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't take much more of this , ’ he confided to Lily , and she told him to shush . |
| 14 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 15 | She stood there , tall , slim , striking , her hair catching light from the sun , and she told them about history or exotic religions — dramatically , humanly , but cleverly mixing in the dry bits with the drama . |
| 16 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 17 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
| 18 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
| 19 | Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit . |
| 20 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 21 | We nibbled olives and she told me about Italy . |
| 22 | Betty 's seen it and she told me about it . |
| 23 | He bent forward to take the bouquet , and she felt something inside her tighten and twist as she shrank further behind her flowers . |
| 24 | and she had them from May Porteswell . |
| 25 | The summer holidays had begun and she had plenty of time to spend in the shop , helping Mr Evans and watching him and wondering … |
| 26 | And she had him in turmoil ! |
| 27 | I had mine in a cone , with wafers stuck in the top that I used to eat it with , but Cati sat down and she had hers with a spoon , out of a glass , sitting up on one of those stools … . ’ |
| 28 | and she had it in a sort of |
| 29 | Light dawned on Loretta , and she launched herself into her part . |
| 30 | He was Pickles 's slave and she treated him like one . |