Example sentences of "[noun] she [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case . |
| 2 | And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing . |
| 3 | ‘ Passion 's prisoners , ’ she offered with acid amusement but none of the simple pleasure she usually took in alliteration . |
| 4 | She had thin , brittle , permed hair , and , under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work , her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins . |
| 5 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 6 | She hesitated , torn between the unaccountable shyness she always felt in Louise 's presence and the overwhelming desire to be in on whatever it was they were giggling about , even if she was only a barely tolerated spectator . |
| 7 | She went towards the house to say goodbye to Stella , and as she turned the corner of the building she almost collided with Luke . |
| 8 | She is sorely missed for the loyal support she always gave to Classes and Events and the Kent Team is not quite the same without her … but our loss is the West Country 's gain and we hope to meet up with Janet at the Easter Course in Bath . |
| 9 | He heard the Direktor calling them back to work again , and he crossed to Ingrid who was nervously studying her score , her lips moving as yet again she went over the part she already knew in minute detail . |
| 10 | She pulled herself straight and directed into his sleepy eyes the look she usually reserved for teachers and principals . |
| 11 | Neighbour Linda Moore told the court she often went to Coventry to escape the sound of Jim Reeves , whose hits in the 1960s included Distant Drums , It Hurts So Much and I Love You Because . |
| 12 | And I think this is behind I made some adverse comment about the Prime Minister 's comment about the burden of the old — to be fair , I think one of the problems she probably had in mind was the fact not of the immediate peak of elderly people , but the peak in the twenty/twenties where the full impact of the erm pension scheme that we 've got will hit with a considerably older population — can we afford it ? |
| 13 | On the same day she also sold to Ballard ‘ all the librettos [ livrets deparolles ] of the operas of the said S. de Lully ’ for 250 livres . |
| 14 | At six o'clock the next morning she finally fell in front of the door of the workhouse , and the people there took her in . |
| 15 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 16 | My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all . |
| 17 | For no particular reason she suddenly thought of Sousan 's severe-faced school teacher . |
| 18 | That was the last thing she ever said about blokes . |
| 19 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 20 | Pregnancy had lent a translucent quality to her looks , but the smiles she frequently aimed at Guy seemed to contain an extra radiance . |
| 21 | Despite the way she discreetly booked into hotels as plain Miss Jones , she was ever available for interviews on local radio stations and always willing to pose with winners of concert tickets in the evening papers . |
| 22 | Dr Neil thought that the way she occasionally trod on phrases when she spoke was charming rather than irritating , given that it enlivened and illuminated her forthright nature . |
| 23 | In fact she hardly spoke for days . |