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She and had
She had reached a point
at which she didn't even care how she looked
.
She stared
at him,
her eyes wide as she thought about what he
had said ; ;
She had helped
him change his mind
.
She said,
and her tone
had softened until
it was almost friendly
.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about
her child until she
had personally confided
her to
the care of
the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''
.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for
her destination which
had wilfully been swallowed
up in
the greedy gloom of
the trees
.
She had the feeling that, under
the mouldering leaves, there would be
the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying
and giving their soil back to
the mountain
.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed
up the liquid of
her eyes
and sank into
the fibers of
her brain, depriving
her of reason
and sight
.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed
around her throat in ever-tightening circles
.
She had to escape
.
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take
her away from this evil place
.
She wondered what
had taken place in town, between
him and his wife
.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping
and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan
and finding nothing but emptiness
.
She had arrived this morning
and come straight to
the English Gardens
.
She had retreated to this world
.
She had touched
her face, truly a noble
and pure face, only with a lip salve which made
her lips glisten but no redder than usual
.
She had hated
the whole idea before they started
.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder
.
She had driven
up with
her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although
the two drivers knew nothing
at the moment about that
.
She might have been someone he
had once loved
.
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right
at the rear of
the wrecked car in
the one spot that most of
the crowd
had detoured slightly
.
She was sitting on
the edge of
the bed again, back in
the same position where
the snake
had found
her.
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing
her superiority in argument over a man
.
She and picked
She had been
picked up by
the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage
.
She escaped, crawled through
the usual mine fields, under barbed wire,
was shot
at, swam a river,
and we finally
picked her up in Linz
.
She smoothed
the covers on Scotty's bed
and picked things
up from
the floor
.

``
She didn't really say '' --
She glanced away
at the floor, then swooped gracefully
and picked up one of Scotty's slippers
.
She picked her own Middle-Eastern friends from
the flock of ardent Egyptians that buzzed
around her.
She picked up the baby
and nuzzled
her fat warm little neck
.
She picked up two more Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for
her performances in Fatal Attraction ( 1987 )
and Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ).
She picked up the pace quickly, but
was unable to shake off Gardner, who kept close until
the finish line,
and the two finished almost simultaneously
.
She instilled in
him a fondness for liberal thought ;
it is probably during this period that Louis Philippe
picked up his slightly Voltairean brand of Catholicism
.
She picked Pelosi as
her designated successor, guaranteeing
her the support of
the Burtons ' contacts
.
She was later
picked up on shopping networks
around the world, including The Shopping Channel ( Canada )
and Ideal World Shopping ( U
. K .).
She is known to be short-tempered
and have a gruff exterior, although she is shown to be polite, sensitive,
and friendly until she is
picked on by
the other students
.
She had to rely on self-administered chemotherapy using supplies from a daring July cargo drop, then
was picked up in an equally dangerous mid-October landing
.
She picked up a number of dog-like habits
and found
it difficult to master language
.
She had picked up a rosary in New Orleans during
the course of
her many moves
around the country
and started to recite
the canticles she
had learned
at her childhood church in Chicago
.
She travelled to Florida with senior FÁS executives, department officials,
and her husband, Brian Geoghegan,
and was receiving more than € 100-a-day subsistence money from
the taxpayer when FÁS
picked up her hairdressing bill in a Florida hotel
.
She attempted to pass herself off as Saati until Toeni
and Hitoshi
picked the real one ; like all programs except Saati, she
had zero modesty while Saati
had modesty to spare
.
She was picked by Steven Spielberg to sing " God Bless America " in A
. I., although
the scene
was edited out of
the final version of
the film
.
She picked up old friendships with Djuna Barnes
and Gertrude Stein
.
She picked up Emmy nominations for
her role as Mona Robinson, a liberated grandmother in Who's
the Boss,
and as Lois Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond
.
She also filmed
her own sitcom pilot for CBS, which
was not
picked up.
She could not have gotten away on
her own, but
the minstrel performer rushed on stage,
picked up her chair,
and carried
her to safety
.
She won gold medals in
the shot put
and discus throw ( despite having
picked up a discus for
the first time just a few weeks before
the event ),
and a bronze medal in
the high jump
.
0.784 seconds.