Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] she [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 2 | An intolerable weight seemed to press on her forehead and slowly she slid into sleep . |
| 3 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 4 | On and on she ran until presently she came in sight of the witch 's cottage , half buried in greenery . |
| 5 | She passed him the tin and the spoon , and lay on the floor looking at the gas fire , and then she went to sleep . |
| 6 | And then she went to sleep again until ten , on our bed . |
| 7 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 8 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 9 | And there she sat in silence beside her daughter for a full minute ; and neither of them spoke until , in a very small voice , Emma said , ‘ I … |
| 10 | He had filled her heart with new hope and love and yet … and yet she burned with uncertainty now . |
| 11 | erm saying that erm they ha that h he had been in touch with her and actually she got in touch with him he said peculalaly peculalalary |
| 12 | She said she was hungry ; he fed her with cornflakes and afterwards she went to sleep , her fat cheek squashed against his waistcoat button , her pink mouth dribbling milk . |
| 13 | At first Buzz saw nothing , but then she gasped in horror . |
| 14 | Oh , you telephoned me the very next night from Prague , ’ she remembered , as too she remembered without difficulty , ‘ I thought you might have rung in connection with that wretched , abominable interview , but you were so bad-tempered … ’ |