Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] she [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate mentioned that she joined a local knitting club , so I 'm surprised that she has n't discussed the subject there and been given advice as to which way to proceed . |
| 2 | She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it . |
| 3 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 4 | I asked my neighbour to turn down her records as I found it impossible to concentrate and she said the only way she could cope with the stress of her reality was to blast her music . |
| 5 | The muscles of his arms and chest were rippling as he moved and she felt a hot flush creeping over her body . |
| 6 | Jack , for God 's sake — ’ Her voice cracked and she took a steadying breath . |
| 7 | Part of her right arm was shattered and she underwent a five-hour emergency operation . |
| 8 | Already , as Luke raised her hand to his mouth , response was quivering to life deep down in the heart of her femininity , flickering and then leaping as she felt the sensual brush of his lips . |
| 9 | She sat in front of her turfed teepee like a re-located squaw — the mass of brown hair loosely braided and heaped on her head like a parcel carelessly tied with twine , her forget-me-not blue eyes looking at Mary only when she thought she was unobserved , at all other times intent on the middle distance , her small , slight , quick body quivering as she enjoyed the rare comfort of proper sat-down company and felt the physical , close interest of another human being . |
| 10 | ‘ How has it been , Wayne ? ’ asked Rachel , making herself concentrate as she removed the old dressings . |
| 11 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 12 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |
| 13 | I once heard Dr Starkie lecture , and I 'm glad to report that she had an atrocious French accent ; one of those deliveries full of dame-school confidence and absolutely no ear , swerving between workaday correctness and farcical error , often within the same word . |
| 14 | With a slight sense that things were moving faster than anticipated , Loretta admitted that she had no firm plans for the next day . |
| 15 | He believed that she pressed a clenched fist against the 2in deep knife wound during the three-mile journey in her killer 's car from the telephone to the embankment at Twyning , Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | In these circumstances it is necessary to ask whether the bank took reasonable steps to try and ensure that she had an adequate comprehension of the effect of the charge . |
| 17 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 18 | Barbara says although she had a fantastic day , she will probably stick to making her own clothes in future : ‘ Trying on all those clothes was fun but it made me realise how tiring modelling — and shopping — really are . |
| 19 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 20 | He did not answer but just before she heard his bedroom door close she would swear that she heard a small chortle of laughter — as if her dry afterthought of a good morning had amused him . |
| 21 | Her lips twisted and she gave a croaking laugh . |
| 22 | She rode on , ducking below trees , shivering as she passed the guarding statues at the crumbling gate . |
| 23 | She drew away from him , shivering as she left the warm circle cast by his body , and heard him sigh as he raised himself up to stare down at her . |
| 24 | ‘ I can , ’ Caroline muttered as she inched the tiny plastic teeth shut , ‘ if you can do without breathing . |
| 25 | Laura could have almost wept as she viewed the cold salmon and potato salad , the strawberries and cream , and the bottle of champagne nestling in its bed of ice . |
| 26 | The girl who would only appear in school plays if she had a non-speaking part was now centre stage . |
| 27 | Erm she was in India and I wanted to go and she said a Hindi course at A T R in Zurich . |
| 28 | Her tears were easing and she gave a long gurgling sniff , reaching , it seemed , deep into her empty body . |
| 29 | The mirror was broken and she hated the casual glimpses she got of her face as she cleaned her teeth or when she passed the hall-stand . |
| 30 | The prize for the winner , was to share her next dinner , and ensure that she had a good time . |