Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 2 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 3 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |
| 4 | The wire is generally fastened to the bracelet with a popper so even if she forgets about it and walks away from her machine with it still attached , it will just pop apart . |
| 5 | She 'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home . |
| 6 | Knowing the cat as well as she did , Mildred could see that , despite its size , it was frightened out of its wits . |
| 7 | ‘ What ought we to do ? ’ said Fenella , a bit more loudly than she had meant . |
| 8 | If that kind of thing had happened very often , Athens would have lost the war much sooner than she did . |
| 9 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 10 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 11 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 12 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |
| 13 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 14 | Damn this man and his ability to force her into probing her own psyche more deeply than she 'd perhaps ever done before . |
| 15 | She should have done so ages ago ; and if she knew her friend as well as she thought she did , then she would be intrigued and delighted by the whole affair . |
| 16 | Mrs Murphy snatched the opportunity to ask Mrs Frizzell to proceed with her report , which she did , outlining the story as far as she knew it and using as many euphemisms as she could . |
| 17 | Married to Dick , she would be able to give her grandfather a home , would be free to renew that wonderful sexual experience as often as she wished , and , of course , to have children . |
| 18 | She gripped the pistol more tightly as she reached the wall beneath the window and rose slowly . |
| 19 | I knew the ground as well as she did , and while she had no reason to suspect my intentions towards her , I had the advantage of knowing , very clearly , her intentions towards me . |
| 20 | As she sat over a pot of tea in a quiet café she reminded herself that it was really expecting too much to find a flat as quickly as she had landed a job . |
| 21 | Nobody could blame her for taking life as seriously as she 'd had to , but the way to some kind of peace and personal balance would surely lie in the opportunity to stop running and relax a little . |
| 22 | Aurora re-filled their glasses , brushed Jay 's hand rather unnecessarily as she set her glass down . |
| 23 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 24 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 25 | The allowance is given from the date of bereavement to the end of that tax year , and for the following year so long as she has not remarried by the start of that year . |
| 26 | Her son , who had scarcely known her but felt that his own throne was conceivably under threat so long as she lived , made no great show of grief when the news was brought to him . |
| 27 | Now he was touching her again , but only because desire had renewed itself , and she was helpless in the grip of a wild excitement once more as she felt the erotic plunge of his tongue filling her mouth and a tormenting finger drew sensual circles round her navel . |
| 28 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 29 | Gloria would be able to read her Picturegoer as late as she wanted without keeping Dot awake . |
| 30 | Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house . |