Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in her bedroom she settled the little dog beside the still-warm hot-water bottle in her own bed . |
| 2 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 3 | As she leaned in the doorway she surveyed the gloomy décor . |
| 4 | A second hospital has been accused of mixing up a baby 's name tag , making the mother fear she had the wrong child . |
| 5 | With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposing portals of Mon Ré , and rang the bell . |
| 6 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |
| 7 | To her delight she discovered the perfect wedding present , a set of sheets and matching pillowcases , all edged with lace and stitched with rosebuds . |
| 8 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 9 | In the hall she chose the prettiest coat she had . |
| 10 | As they drove away from the cemetery she spotted the clapped-out van belonging to Anna 's boyfriend parked some distance from the gates , a large CND symbol painted on its side . |
| 11 | In return she supervised the classical side of his training school . |
| 12 | She might have been daft in some ways , but she knew what was in and what was out , did Mary M. She knew the right clubs to go to . |
| 13 | But with a sinking heart she remembered the sturdy latch jamming on her just moments ago . |
| 14 | With her hot face crushed blindly against the warm scent of his chest she felt the lean hand explore the silken plane of her stomach , slip with masculine sureness to separate her thighs . |
| 15 | She was educated mostly at home , though there was a brief unhappy experience at a Swiss boarding-school , and in adolescence she attended the private classes of the Revd William Gaskell [ q.v. ] , the Gaskells being near neighbours of the Stewarts in Rusholme . |
| 16 | Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses . |
| 17 | Sabine had been guiltily aware of the click of her sandal heels on the flags of the ancient cloister , and was tempted to tiptoe instead , in case she upset the sleeping spirits of the long-departed monks with such frivolous modernity . |
| 18 | Thankful that because of Rosie 's appendix she knew the quickest way to the hospital well , Shelley drove like a demon after the ambulance , and ran in as the casualty was stretchered in . |
| 19 | He turned and glared at her and for a moment she thought the old Georg was going to start carping and nagging and telling her what she ought or ought not to do . |
| 20 | In that moment she knew the lovely air hostess had been someone special in his life . |
| 21 | For a moment she had the strong feeling of being at a funeral . |
| 22 | And at the same moment she had the shattering thought that perhaps she had imagined the whole thing . |
| 23 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 24 | Startled , her lips parted , and for a moment she tasted the warm firmness of his flesh before she hastily closed her mouth , trapping his finger . |
| 25 | At that moment she hated the bald guide with her one lock of blond hair curled in the hollow of her nape . |
| 26 | In these moments of gilded sensuality she had the wonderful feeling that she knew everything she needed to know , right here , and right now , right beneath her fingertips . |
| 27 | In the morning room she wound the French clock , the one with love birds entwined on the top of it . |
| 28 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 29 | In the distance she heard the faint sounds of voices from the pool , and her dazed eyes rested on the green palm trees out on the terrace , while the dim light of the courtyard shut out the horrors of the morning , and she saw the gleaming white tower of a mosque against the deep sky and the far-off mountains , just as they had looked in the travel brochures . |
| 30 | In the last second before the knifing pain in her chest forced her to breath in water she found the dangling mouthpiece , and pushed it back between her teeth . |