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Example sentences for "she took"

  • She took my hand, and led me through the third door; whereupon I found myself standing in the deep grassy turf on which I had landed from the little boat, but upon the opposite side of the cottage.

  • She took notice of each addition and each change as the work proceeded; and a look of acknowledgment, as if she knew that some one was ministering to her, and was grateful for it, mingled with the constant look of suffering.

  • The prohibition, however, only increased my desire to see; and as she took no further notice, I gently opened the door to its full width, and looked in.

  • She took a letter from the lid of her workbox, and handed it to him.

  • She took it, and they ascended the remaining slope together.

  • She took it and read it as she went upstairs to change her habit.

  • Arabella kept very considerably in the rear of Jude; but though she only sipped where he drank, she took as much as she could safely take without losing her head--which was not a little, as the crimson upon her countenance showed.

  • She took it, thoroughly, up to the shoulder.

  • She took it, and began rending it with all her might, the tears resounding through the house like a screech-owl.

  • She was not a little surprised, but remembering her father's words, she took courage, determined to wait and see what would happen.

  • So she took her by the hand and led her to an open door, and as the girl passed through it there fell a heavy shower of gold all over her, till she was covered with it from top to toe.

  • She took all the provincial subscriptions; in fact, she took everything, from the column of news and gossip down to the dramatic notes.

  • When Mme Lerat, who happened just then to be drinking her morning coffee with Zoe, beheld her bedraggled plight and haggard face, she took note of the hour and at once understood the state of the case.

  • Nana was dumfounded by this ebullition of jealousy, and, greatly moved by the way things were turning out, she took him in her arms and comforted him to the best of her ability.

  • She took me upstairs, and we talked it over, and before I left she made me promise that I would write you and explain how I felt, and ask you what you thought.

  • It was in her heart to make me morally clean, so she took me to nature and drilled me in its forces and its methods of reproducing life according to the law.

  • She took it in her hands to find a corner.

  • There must have been an automobile waiting or she took a street car.

  • She took Carl's arm and they walked toward the gate.

  • She took up her workbasket and waited for him to speak.

  • She took up one of the birds, a rumpled ball of feathers with the blood dripping slowly from its mouth, and looked at the live color that still burned on its plumage.

  • She took up the package of letters Alexandra had brought, but she did not read them.

  • She took me in and showed me the thing, and she told me it was impossible to wash yourself clean in it, because, in so much water, you could not make a strong suds.

  • She took a bite out of the apple, munched it, and swallowed it.

  • She took hold of the gate and he, yielding his place, let her pass through.

  • Moreover, if she took steps to arouse his attention, one of two things would be likely to happen.

  • She took it up, glanced at it, and gave a little shriek.

  • She took a vast responsibility upon herself, but she resolved to tell all to the count.

  • She took direction of his labors, she gave him formal orders on the employment of his time; she stayed at home to deprive him of every pretext for dissipation.

  • Being astute, she took me by the hand so we could go looking for it.

  • She took me down so many streets that I thought she was getting paid for walking or was playing a trick on me.

  • She took my hand again and led me outside to walk around the hermitage, watching my face all the time.

  • She took me by the hand, pulled me down on the brick bed beside her, and told me in a pathetic way how both of her daughters had been taken from her in a single day.

  • Shortly after she was taken into the palace she began the study of books, and partly as a diversion, but largely out of her love for art, she took up the brush.

  • I beg your pardon for not having my hair properly dressed," she said, as she took my hands in hers, the custom of these Manchu princesses and even the Empress Dowager herself, in greeting foreign ladies.

  • As each guest passed through the court, she took a stick from the pile, lit it, and, with a word of prayer, added it to the number.

  • She took up her charcoal again, but in a moment put it down with a groan.

  • She took no interest in her own sex and declined the suggestion that other girls should be asked for her sake.

  • She took a lot of trouble about her health and accepted the advice of anyone who chose to offer it.

  • She took it into her head that the reasons for his conduct were chivalrous; and, her imagination filled with the extravagances of cheap fiction, she pictured to herself all sorts of romantic explanations for his delicacy.

  • She had struck Lyndall once years before, and had never done it again, so she took Em.

  • So saying, she took up the plate in which she had brought his breakfast, and walked off to the house.

  • She took it down and opened the great press.

  • She took a fancy to Mademoiselle, and amused her very much with odd stories of her life in France, when Amy sat with her while she got up Madame's laces.

  • So she took Amy by the hand, and taught her as she herself had been taught sixty years ago, a process which carried dismay to Amy's soul, and made her feel like a fly in the web of a very strict spider.

  • She took it out a minute ago, and went off with it to put a ribbon on it, or some such notion," replied Jo, dancing about the room to take the first stiffness off the new army slippers.

  • In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody.

  • He offered his arm to the countess; she took it, or rather just touched it with her little hand, and they together descended the steps, lined with rhododendrons and camellias.

  • She took it, and looked attentively on the count; there was an expression on the face of her intrepid protector which commanded her veneration.

  • She took me home with her from the settlements when I had no place to go.

  • She took it, and broke the seal carelessly.

  • She took a candlestick from the table, lighted the candle, and handed it me with a courtesy.

  • She took Mrs. Temple by the arm and led her, unresisting, along the path.

  • She took it, staring at me with eyes wide with wonder, and then she opened it mechanically.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    jeune homme; not simply; poor mother; she answered; she asked; she called; she came; she caught; she did; she gazed; she got; she had always been; she had always been; she had never seen; she knew; she made; she meant; she moved; she observed; she read; she seems; she should; she would have been; she writes; sheer force; shell thin