Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much she 'd fallen in love with Rohan , to him she was no more than a passing fancy , to be enjoyed then discarded . |
| 2 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 3 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 4 | If only — the thought came for the first time — if only she had stayed with Papa ! |
| 5 | Whereas hitherto she had looked upon sex as highly enjoyable for its own sake , now she believed that , in some inextricable way , she would not be able to help equating it with what might — and , presumably , should be — the end result : procreation . |
| 6 | And let him — let all of them — think that was all she had had in mind ! |
| 7 | She felt beautiful , needed , and alone she dared admit to feeling loved . |
| 8 | Somehow she had erred in deed or manners . |
| 9 | She did n't know how she was going to do it , but somehow she had to get into conversation with her . |
| 10 | Automatically she prepared to go to bed , her mind worrying at the puzzle like a terrier . |
| 11 | As she descended the stairs , she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace . |
| 12 | But now she had gone to sleep , or into a coma , I was n't sure which . |
| 13 | Now she had fallen in love with a man who infuriated her , and turned her on , and had managed to read her like a book . |
| 14 | We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations . |
| 15 | Now she had arrived in East Africa only to find the same grim process being repeated — but with one significant difference . |
| 16 | Two days ago she had stood in line in the drafting office at the training depot , wondering where she would be sent . |
| 17 | The uncles had looked after her when she was young , then her professor and Hans Kramer and Busacher had begun her on her career , and then she had fallen in love and it had all gone wrong . |
| 18 | On the surface Caesar appeared to be a supremely selfish individual , but then she had to take into account that having virtue he had no need of goodness . |
| 19 | For a second or two she felt the protection of a man 's arms holding her securely and then she had crashed on top of him and was lying spread-eagled on a rock-hard body , deceptively concealed beneath soft fabric . |
| 20 | For this , in turn , gnawed away at her mind , then she began to deteriorate in body too . |
| 21 | Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time . |
| 22 | There she felt attracted to Quakerism , which became the topic of her first two books , published in 1914 . |
| 23 | And instead she had fallen in love with her own tumour . |
| 24 | Otherwise she had lived in privacy , which was a kind of speaking silence . |
| 25 | On her money she could well have afforded something grander , like a Porsche , but evidently she had decided against ostentation . |
| 26 | Again she felt overwhelmed with fatigue , but sly , lecherous images slunk into her mind , like a guilty dog sneaking in after a roll in something bad . |
| 27 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |