Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] [vb past] " 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 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 .
7 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 .
8 On set she met and fell in love with her screen husband , Branagh , and they announced they were to marry in 1989 .
9 A dramatic change took place when she met and had a row with her husband .
10 ‘ Julie was a high achiever , who made a tremendous impact on all those she met and had a lot of friends , ’ said Tim .
11 She turned on the charm to all she met and grinned at cameramen , seeming to know instinctively when the best pictures were being taken .
12 A year later she met and began to live with C. , who was the father of her baby who was later to be stillborn .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 In 1975 she met and married her husband Richard La Plante , an American thriller writer , who 's also a black belt in karate .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 She attacked and circumvented the restrictive actor-manager system , producing independent subscription theatre with good roles for women .
21 Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys .
22 Then , using her school hat as a net , she swooped and caught it .
23 When I entered our kitchen Mum stared at me , dumbounded , until she recovered and found her voice .
24 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 .
25 She expected and gave no kindness , no tenderness at all .
26 ‘ I worked very closely with the clients who see two sets of proofs , ’ says Cleary , 28 , a history graduate who started out in the antiques world but did n't find the challenge she expected and joined Barkers Trident as an editorial assistant .
27 She argued and pleaded with him , and warned Carolyn to keep Alan away from the house .
28 He had hoped she would n't notice the impertinence , but she coloured and began angrily , ‘ I do n't see that that 's any business of yours … but yes , it was . ’
29 She coloured and laughed .
30 But she was still enjoying her new position as mistress of a farm and house , and although she respected and liked him , she did not want to marry him .
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