Example sentences of "[verb] she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 2 | He says she fell onto a concrete road . |
| 3 | Detective Sergeant Andy says she wandered across a nearby golf course . |
| 4 | And as she played she sang in a high contralto . |
| 5 | By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck . |
| 6 | Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins . |
| 7 | I realized she relied on the extra money . |
| 8 | In the glare of the lightning flashes she rushed across the flooded clearing and did n't stop until she reached Jacques Devraux 's hut . |
| 9 | Once the birds were enclosed she leaned against the low coconut tree behind the house and examined her arms in the gentle afternoon light , wondering what colour they were . |
| 10 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |
| 12 | Or was she behaving again like she had after the strange happenings on Monument Hill ? |
| 13 | And then she said erm she said , and I suppose she turned to the other guy , she said , we 're not supposed to do clairvoyants , like , laughing , you know . |
| 14 | And when the Virgin Mary died she rose from the dead too ; not just her soul went up to heaven , but her body too . ’ |
| 15 | On summer days she would practise her arabesques on the sandstone balustrades of the house and when the visitors had gone she danced in the black-and-white marble entrance hall , known officially as Wootton Hall , beneath portraits of her distinguished ancestors . |
| 16 | She knew she sounded like a sulky little girl , but his news was a shattering disappointment . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 18 | Marie was sure that this was because he did n't want to make his family out as ‘ better ’ than hers : he knew she lived on a scruffy council estate with a bad reputation . |
| 19 | Sarah guessed she must be James 's wife , and thought she looked like the pink jelly which wobbled on a dish near the salmon . |
| 20 | And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her . |
| 21 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 22 | She said she knew of no other way to assess the value of a piece . |
| 23 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 24 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |
| 25 | And she said she spoke for the two other chip shop owners in the town in rebutting the charges . |
| 26 | As Nathan got in beside her , the Customs officer who had questioned her slid into the front passenger-seat . |
| 27 | When he reappeared she gestured through the open door . |
| 28 | ii.4.30 , oikeia kai piste ; Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet . |