Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the final custody proceedings are over , it is best for Kirsty that she remain here , where her friends are , where she feels most at home . ’ |
| 2 | The other linguists all retained lasting interest in their subject without building careers on it : Lorna Bottomley joined the temporary Civil Service ( Ministry of Education ) after the war , enjoyed educational administration and in 1947 moved to become Assistant Secretary at the Westminster Medical School where she remained contentedly until retirement in 1982 . |
| 3 | The reminiscing had begun and , although she paused briefly to hand round the plates and a bowl of crisp salad to go with the pie , there was no way Harry could stop her . |
| 4 | But , although she smiled briefly at Folly in a friendly enough way , she seemed too distracted to wait for an answer , and started to usher them inside . |
| 5 | Although she argues mainly for process evaluation at whole-school level , her account is representative of a growing genre of writing on insider evaluation , which is generally opposed to the objectives approach . |
| 6 | Her sympathy for Mrs Wallington helped her to ignore the realisation that it was an enormous relief to be away from Anthony and with people who produced an atmosphere of such calm and ease that she felt immediately at home with them . |
| 7 | In other words , Saab felt that she had less in common with ‘ feminists ’ in general ( which , as we know , is often a shorthand for White Western women ) than with women of the Orient . |
| 8 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 9 | ‘ And rules out one thing : that she fell overboard by accident . ’ |
| 10 | I guessed this was happening , because er she told me that she gets here at quarter past seven . |
| 11 | In passing she mentions that she has sometimes in despair hit her children . |
| 12 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 13 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 14 | She then places her hand in his and with his help gradually rises onto pointe until she poses triumphantly in attitude . |
| 15 | ‘ They count the hours until she comes home from school , ’ Margaret said . |
| 16 | Please — ’ And she looked imploringly at Mum . |
| 17 | In the corner , Sue is receiving head from Martin the Brummie and she stares glazedly into space , her pigtails bobbing with the motion . |
| 18 | Her premenstrual tension became worse after the birth of her baby and she felt generally under par . |
| 19 | Something nipped at her neck , and she pitched forward into blackness . |
| 20 | Far below was the cobbled courtyard , the ancient walls of the castle , the drawbridge and the winding road leading back down the narrow valley towards civilisation , but she was trapped in this gaunt grey fortress with this brooding stranger , and she longed only for escape . |
| 21 | Hyde hit her across the face , and she ran away in fear . |
| 22 | If we are not yet ready for such a grave ceremony , sooner or later we will be ; and if anyone thinks it macabre or mawkish , let them first read Derek Humphry 's moving account in his book Jean 's Way of how , when his wife had entered the terminal stage of bone cancer , he and she sat together over coffee and she took the pill which , with her full approval , he had obtained and kept safe for the occasion , and how she died peacefully in his arms . |
| 23 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 24 | The sleeping pills had left her feeling groggy ; she knew from experience that unless she rose immediately on waking , she would feel drugged throughout the day . |
| 25 | His fingers touched hers and his heart gave a jolt , but she seemed perfectly in command of herself and had apparently felt nothing , so he told himself not to be a dope , and carried his coffee back to the chesterfield . |
| 26 | Nenna knew this perfectly well , but she felt deeply at peace . |
| 27 | He was right behind her , as she knew he would be , but she felt more in command on her feet , even though he was far bigger and far more powerful than she was . |
| 28 | She is indeed a transcendent figment of the creative literary imagination : According to Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , Alison escapes any punishment in the tale because she acts purely in accordance with " nature " . |
| 29 | She did n't have either the time or the inclination to hold ‘ receptions ’ — whatever they might be — but when she returned home at night , exhausted from her day in the City , she never failed to appreciate the deep sense of peaceful calm and serenity of the large , thickly carpeted room . |
| 30 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |