Example sentences of "[vb past] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 2 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 3 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 4 | She found she still could n't eat . |
| 5 | Robyn summoned up every ounce of strength and hate and found she still did n't have enough to cope with Luke 's overwhelming anger and her migraine all at the same time . |
| 6 | She liked to take walks alone , and occasionally pretended she completely belonged in St James 's Park or Kensington and always had . |
| 7 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 8 | Travis looked surprised , and that aggravated her as much as his reply . |
| 9 | ‘ Luck has n't come into it , ’ he contradicted her arrogantly . |
| 10 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 11 | Suddenly there was a rush of water and he was there and she grabbed at him and then the world and white water spun as he entered her again , deeply , thoroughly , moving so desperately that she moaned against his mouth . |
| 12 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 13 | Remembering to take his weight on his elbows as a gentleman should and desperately trying to restrain his passion , he entered her gently , but firmly . |
| 14 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 15 | Trainer Richard Hannon entered her yesterday for the Hambro Countrywide Fillies Stakes at Newmarket and the Daily Mail Leisure Stakes at Lingfield on Saturday . |
| 16 | The bullet entered her back and exited through her chest , puncturing a lung and breaking a rib . |
| 17 | She turned to face me and gave me that vivid smile that transformed her already delightful face . |
| 18 | Manescu grasped her firmly by the arm as he asked his question . |
| 19 | I released her hand and grasped her firmly by the buttocks , small but ripe . |
| 20 | The paper slid from his hands and he grasped her firmly by her shoulders . |
| 21 | He grasped her suddenly nerveless fingers in his hand , sending her a smile with enough voltage to make her weak at the knees . |
| 22 | Ruth asked as Fernando reached down and grasped her tightly round the wrist to haul her out of the swimming-pool . |
| 23 | The teacher referred her back to the work done with connector rods and scales and then asked her what she needed to do . |
| 24 | The following week , her own doctor 's clinic referred her back to the centre because of a slight problem with her blood pressure . |
| 25 | Apparently some villain , hot with his own juices , had bought Meg 's body and used her carnally before plunging a knife between her ribs . |
| 26 | She waited until the pressure outside the suit was near zero , checked that the pressure inside was normal , and used her right claw with surprising delicacy to tap in the instruction to open the hatch . |
| 27 | And then Janet overtook her just before the finishing line . |
| 28 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 29 | She settled in Crocker Street and he visited her regularly during rehearsals of the Winter Gardens shows . |
| 30 | But long before her death my grandmother was a ghost to me , as if she was never really there , even though I visited her regularly as a child . |