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