Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 2 | Daily she went to the M's farm and asked Mrs M to teach her . |
| 3 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 4 | So she drifted through the diamond-decked tourists who chattered and laughed in the street-lights . |
| 5 | so she went into the second field |
| 6 | So she jumped under the cold shower every morning . |
| 7 | The effect , when finally she slipped into the black dress , was both dramatic and startling . |
| 8 | Soon she came by the local gymnasium , and then the local Cedok tourist office , and from there she turned into a part which she was growing more familiar with , and in no time found she was back in the colonnade area . |
| 9 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 10 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 11 | Gratefully she responded to the familiar London accent . |
| 12 | She liked to dazzle Montparnasse with her originality ; sometimes she wore long flowing veils , usually she appeared in the smocked Liberty dresses that suited her pert little-girl look . |
| 13 | Quickly she went into the next room , returning a moment later with a small linen basket . |
| 14 | A week later she returned with the unfortunate animal in a box . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later she drove into the main entrance of Conway House and gradually she felt her anger ebb away . |
| 16 | Hours later she woke to the same sensation of calm fulfilment . |
| 17 | Ten minutes later she appeared on the distant seashore . |
| 18 | Whenever she looked round the tall , robed figure was getting closer . |
| 19 | The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings . |
| 20 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 21 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 22 | One live pigeon , sitting on the wall … up she went between the dark cliffs , clap clap clap clap … |
| 23 | Angrily she snatched at the home-made corsage . |
| 24 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 25 | Now she came at the bitter end and she never did anything . |
| 26 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 27 | A month ago he had come to see her and now she understood for the first time that what he had said to her then would change her life . |
| 28 | Now she emerged from the tall forest of filing shelves , a middle-aged woman wearing a look of tremulous satisfaction . |
| 29 | A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council . |
| 30 | Was n't she motivated by the same inner compulsion , the urge to forge ahead ? |