Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | People were clapping as he stumbled between the rows of seats with her and out into the garden , where she reached out one hand to clutch at the trunk of a flowering cherry , then doubled up over his arm to vomit into a tidy bed of daffodils . |
2 | They are confident that , highly skilled and dedicated and absolutely tireless , the surgeon will treat each operation — no matter how many operations he or she carries out that day … that week … that year — as unique and fascinating , that he or she will be in top form — for them . |
3 | Although she gave up this job eight years ago , she has a lasting identification with it . |
4 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
5 | It would be nice to think that she woke up one day and thought , ‘ I 've got to do Michael 's show . ’ |
6 | At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night . |
7 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
8 | She ( Jane 's editor ) is so jittery it 's said she wriggles about on her chair to such an extent that she wears out several pairs of knickers a week ! ’ |
9 | She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later . |
10 | Her eyes flew up to meet his in a panic until she screwed up sufficient courage to put her fear into words . |
11 | Her mouth remained parched and she swilled out another glass . |
12 | And she let her borrow it and she sent back forty Rothman 's cigarettes and said thank you very much , I 'm very |
13 | The English Mechanic lured her and she carried out explosive experiments with the powder for her father 's sporting guns . |
14 | Vaguely ashamed of her behaviour , she then tried to draw back , but his arms tightened , preventing her , and she gave up all thoughts of resistance . |
15 | Roman 's arm tightened round her waist as if he knew her thoughts , and she gave up all hope of escape , for the moment . |
16 | And she reeled off several names and exact addresses and sent me on my way : Kerr ( ‘ Everyone is related to Kerrs ’ ) , MacMillan , Mackinnon , Lowe . |
17 | Er a lady fetched it er for us to do and she comes back next week for it , just to put it on when anybody 's in , just a conversation , for new words for a dictionary or something |
18 | Okay , the , the tale is that in January I booked Derwent dining hall for a barn dance next week and got a phone call yesterday but I was n't there and she rang back this morning , said oh I 'm very sorry , I 'm very sorry , but you ca n't have it , I 'm very sorry . |
19 | Cos she was n't the nurse cos she walked in half way through the inquest . |
20 | If she looks round one day for someone to borrow a fiver off she might , just might , notice I 'm not there . ’ |
21 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
22 | If she found out this weekend , that could be quite significant . |
23 | Oh that was she was supposed to come today , but she phoned up last week erm she is gon na come but I do n't think that a date has been arranged yet . |
24 | She left it to settle on top of the stove while she warmed up some bread sauce and crisps . |
25 | She kept up a flow of nervous chatter from the kitchen while she brewed up two cups of instant coffee . |
26 | Ever since she gave up full-time employment where everyone touched their cap to her , she 's found the loss of identity difficult to cope with . |
27 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
28 | Seles broke Novotna to reach 3–2 and two games later reached a turning point in the match when she fought off four game points to break the Czechoslovak again . |
29 | when she came up last Saturday |
30 | The huge teddy bear had been installed on a chair in my flat , and scared my servant when she came in next morning . |