Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And she whispered and cooed until the heart of the privet bird began to beat .
2 Blood pressure , ’ she whispered and shone the light on my face for a second .
3 There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both .
4 ‘ It 's unbelievable , ’ said Mrs Stephens , as she hugged and kissed her deeply-tanned daughter .
5 Rachel said huskily , walking to his bedside and trying not to be alarmed by his appearance as she hugged and kissed him .
6 Although Mrs Whitehouse recounts stories of the ‘ embarrassing ’ moments she experienced when discussing certain matters with her pupils , it appears from her accounts of this period that the school-based sex education programme she was involved in was , for her , a positive and satisfying experience .
7 It 's just that I — I ca n't eat any more , ’ she admitted while becoming aware of the misery growing within her and feeling perilously near tears .
8 A FORMER royal nanny is to marry a man she met while looking after Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie .
9 Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson , who does not really count : she inherited her $550m fortune from her husband , chairman of America 's Johnson and Johnson company , whom she met while working as a maid in his house .
10 She chose the multicolour puffball creation for her London wedding to computer programmer Danny Daggenhurst who she met and fell in love with a year ago .
11 The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom .
12 On set she met and fell in love with her screen husband , Branagh , and they announced they were to marry in 1989 .
13 A dramatic change took place when she met and had a row with her husband .
14 ‘ Julie was a high achiever , who made a tremendous impact on all those she met and had a lot of friends , ’ said Tim .
15 She turned on the charm to all she met and grinned at cameramen , seeming to know instinctively when the best pictures were being taken .
16 A year later she met and began to live with C. , who was the father of her baby who was later to be stillborn .
17 As a result of a visit to Ruthenia in 1939 on behalf of the Evening Standard during which she was briefly imprisoned , she met and married the then notorious journalist Claud Cockburn who was at that time producing his one-man newsletter The Week .
18 Through this work she met and married a dashing test pilot who was the son of a wealthy Boston brain surgeon , had two children and lived in some style on Long Island where Jack spent many holiday breaks , lapping up the upper-class luxury .
19 In 1975 she met and married her husband Richard La Plante , an American thriller writer , who 's also a black belt in karate .
20 Their feelings were intense , and he made love to her with an ardour she met and matched with a fiery passion that consumed them both in a blaze of glory .
21 His was the snarling rage , hers the shame as she peed and peed and swore one day to be big enough to beat him , razor his skin , utterly humiliate him , and scorn his cries for mercy .
22 Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books .
23 She read and read and read while her aunt mended the socks of her husband and brothers or sewed innumerable buttons on their shirts .
24 He watched her as she emptied and polished the ashtray ( he did n't smoke and the smell of ash offended him ) , collected together the copies of the Laboratory plans and gathered up the strewn discarded papers .
25 She attacked and circumvented the restrictive actor-manager system , producing independent subscription theatre with good roles for women .
26 Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys .
27 Then , using her school hat as a net , she swooped and caught it .
28 When I entered our kitchen Mum stared at me , dumbounded , until she recovered and found her voice .
29 In her insouciant assumption of the pleasure she gave others , Caterina was trapped : she expected that overflowing fountain of love , and when it was staunched , the guilt took her in its fist and squeezed .
30 He was taller than she expected and wore a wall-cut dinner jacket that contrasted with the eccentric fancy-dress of some of the other diners .
  Next page