Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] she [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 2 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 3 | Because one of the typewriters is broken and she blamed it on me . |
| 4 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 5 | She was very calm when she rang me from the hospital asking for her mourning clothes . |
| 6 | The flat seemed cold and empty when she let herself in several hours later , and discovering a message from Kelly on the answering-machine brought no respite from the depression which had settled over her like a heavy black cloud . |
| 7 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 8 | It sounded ridiculously lame and she cursed herself for sounding so weak and ineffectual , but miraculously he seemed not to notice . |
| 9 | I was nervous but she put me at ease immediately . |
| 10 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 11 | She glanced down at her hand , wondering yet again why the memory of that day should be so insistent tonight , then her lovely face became expressionless as she wrapped herself in the familiar cloak of indifference . |
| 12 | She was breathless , shivering with cold as she hid herself behind the curtains of the four-poster . |
| 13 | Her eyes were cold when she lifted them to Piper 's face . |
| 14 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 15 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 16 | Although momentarily tempted by the seductively rich chocolate dessert Sabrina 's willpower held firm and she gave it to Graham . |
| 17 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 18 | She felt very vulnerable and awkward as she followed him into the room . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been terrible when she told you about Nicola 's affair with Parkin . |
| 20 | She reminded herself that it was unlikely that all people could possibly be as stupid as she supposed them to be ; that at some level even she , Lydia the clever , could find common ground and communicate intelligibly with other human beings . |
| 21 | He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to . |
| 22 | She knew that , as long as she applied it with care , she had great power over Bernard . |
| 23 | As long as she approaches everything with as much fascination and energy as she does now , she 'll retain her freshness forever . |
| 24 | But there ( at H.S. 's ) the food is so beautiful that she applies herself to it . |
| 25 | She 's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest , and gave me information about her neighbours , whom she seems to like quite a bit . |
| 26 | Never happy unless she has something in her mouth , ’ he confided to me . |
| 27 | She was happy when she starved herself of new clothes and expensive hairdressers , her bun gone , her blonde hair cut short , strict and styleless , by a merciless local hairdresser . |
| 28 | When he was imprisoned in 1768 for sexual sadism he managed to secure an early release by the devious means of getting his wife pregnant while she visited him in jail . |
| 29 | She 's trying to sell the place ; she 'd make damn sure that those figures were available if she wanted them to be seen . |
| 30 | Rachel got to her feet , pen and notepad in hand , forcing herself to keep her disintegrating professional cool as she followed him into his luxurious modern office overlooking the city . |