Example sentences of "she [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted a challenging look at Claudia . |
| 2 | Maria 's heart clenched as she slanted a look at his grim countenance . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's — it 's eerie in the bush at night , ’ she whispered a little shakily . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I can stay here , ’ she whispered an entreaty . |
| 5 | She whispered the words aloud : " He will share your bed and possess your body . " |
| 6 | She whispered the words . |
| 7 | Her eyes rounded and she hugged every scrap of blanket she could around her body , making a barrier to his hot eyes . |
| 8 | She hugged the child to her . |
| 9 | She hugged the girder . |
| 10 | She hugged the Rodney to her breast , fearful lest they take it away from her . |
| 11 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 12 | Fielding it with one hand , she sobered , and , putting her glass down on the fender , she hugged the cushion on her knees . |
| 13 | Though ‘ attraction ’ was an anaemic description of her feelings , still she hugged the words to her like some priceless gift . |
| 14 | Quickly she stowed the silver away , put up the lampshade and left the others on the table . |
| 15 | It was a measure of Cecilia 's character that , unlike most people , she experienced no schadenfreude about this , felt no secret pleasure in the superiority of her circumstances over her friend 's , but sincerely regretted Daphne 's inferior home and reduced income . |
| 16 | She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 17 | As Louise moved away she experienced a powerful urge to grab the massager and tug it close to her secret places again but she did not dare . |
| 18 | Wandering around looking at the different displays , she experienced a strange sensation of being drawn towards something . |
| 19 | She experienced a lot of pain and perhaps always would ; her privations may have damaged her health permanently . |
| 20 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 21 | As she sat there , she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power . |
| 22 | Yet Xanthe 's tidy existence felt mussed in Miranda 's company ; she experienced a sudden , vivid awareness of prohibitions hedging her about , and with the awareness , a desire to break them . |
| 23 | Looking at them , she experienced a curious sense of exclusion ; she wondered who the woman was ; she wondered how well Giles knew her . |
| 24 | Carol , aged 29 and a first-time mother , was induced just four days before her baby 's due date because she experienced a rise in her blood pressure . |
| 25 | Alice 's father , a naturalized British subject since 1852 , indulged his wanderlust during Alice 's first fifteen years , and thus she experienced a constant change of scene and sound , living in New Zealand , Mexico , the United States , and Europe , until the family settled in Tonbridge in 1874 . |
| 26 | With a good heavy hot iron , it would stop belling out here and there , she thought , and she experienced a flash of pleasure at the quickness and deftness of her work . |
| 27 | Now , standing beside Fernand in the mouth of a gash in the cliff , with the river raging beneath their feet and an ink-dark cavern ahead , she experienced a tingle of awe and anticipation that swept away the fear and the vertigo . |
| 28 | The sound system 's speakers were like upended steamer trunks , one on top of another ; standing so close , the volume gave her a sensation in her ears like that of tearing paper and she experienced a few moments of sensory overload before she recognised the tune as New York , New York . |
| 29 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 30 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |