Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If only she 'd paid more attention on the way down here . |
2 | Her enormous grey eyes ( they would have been rather striking if only she had used some make-up ) were staring at him with the expression of a trapped rabbit . |
3 | If only she had shown such dedication as a tennis player . |
4 | Apparently she had had heavy thighs all her life and still can not get used to her new shape . |
5 | Perhaps she did buy that picture because it is concerned with loneliness , with " the contemplation of time passing without meaning " , " 1 and moved then , momentarily , hesitantly , towards all the other lost travellers . |
6 | LEFT Dawn eating a chick , which when she was in training would be all she had to eat all day . |
7 | Tonight she had come full circle — from merely suspecting Luke 's motives to hearing him finally admit them . |
8 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
9 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
10 | However badly she had behaved last night , he was worse . |
11 | Eventually she managed to pick three blooms . |
12 | And our sister paper the Sunday Mirror revealed yesterday she had given 37-year-old Bryan a room there . |
13 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
14 | During the journey home she sat pondering this fact , at the same time realising she must not allow her thoughts to become emotionally involved with this devastating man . |
15 | It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved . |
16 | Now she had to let that night , her feelings , her certainties about his feelings , her inflamed stirrings of the senses — all be lapped away . |
17 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
18 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
19 | Now she had to consider another person 's wishes at all times . |
20 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
21 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
22 | It was true that Mrs Maugham 's moral fervour had had slightly more edge in the days before she herself acquired a television set , but even now she managed to retain sufficient cause for indignation , and the quality of her feeling for Mrs Hanney had changed not at all , though her attacks had been somewhat restricted in scope . |
23 | Well she did work full time in London , but she said that was to much for her so she 's , she did n't work at all , now she 's gone back to work three days a week in Orpington I think . |
24 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
25 | Here she stopped to watch old Twomey the butler shaving himself with a cut-throat razor . |
26 | But today she had felt old wounds being ripped open . |
27 | Today she wanted to thank medical staff … police and hordes of well-wishers who 've sent cards and letters … including a surprising number of prison inmates |
28 | Sometimes she had worked twenty-four hours without sleep . |
29 | By then she 'd saved enough money to go to Australia , but decided in the end that she could always travel later . |
30 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |