Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 3 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 4 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 5 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 6 | Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap . |
| 7 | She wished to bring an action against her employers alleging that they had been negligent in failing adequately to protect her against the known risk of injury from this pupil . |
| 8 | She appeared to have sufficient buoyancy forward to lift her over the next wave instead of burying the foredeck , something which normally prefaces a broach . |