Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 2 | Suddenly she broke into a terrible , loud and demented scream . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 5 | So she embarked on a four-month programme of erotic self-education and yoga . |
| 6 | So she drifted through the diamond-decked tourists who chattered and laughed in the street-lights . |
| 7 | So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church . |
| 8 | So she jumped under the cold shower every morning . |
| 9 | Further along she came upon an upturned Welsh dresser with a hand protruding out from underneath it . |
| 10 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 11 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 12 | The effect , when finally she slipped into the black dress , was both dramatic and startling . |
| 13 | Somehow she knew with an inner certainty that even if she had met Adam Burns only for the most fleeting of moments , those dark obsidian eyes would have burned themselves into her memory for ever . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Eventually she wrote to a social worker and , under the new Children 's Act , is seeking to divorce her parents . |
| 16 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 17 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 18 | Gratefully she responded to the familiar London accent . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Off she went with a trumpety trump , trump trump |
| 21 | Off she went with a trumpety trump , trump , trump , trump |
| 22 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 23 | Edward paid the taxi driver in advance and all the way home she sat in a happy daze . |
| 24 | A week later she returned with the unfortunate animal in a box . |
| 25 | Ten minutes later she drove into the main entrance of Conway House and gradually she felt her anger ebb away . |
| 26 | She began to walk forward rapidly , but a couple of minutes later she came to an abrupt stop . |
| 27 | Later she trained as a Jungian analyst and , now widowed , she is working full-time in this field , but finds time to enjoy the company of grandchildren and greatnephews and nieces . |
| 28 | Later she moved to a proper — and vast — gallery on West Broadway . |
| 29 | Ten minutes later she appeared on the distant seashore . |
| 30 | Whenever she looked round the tall , robed figure was getting closer . |