Example sentences of "[coord] she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 2 | His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come . |
| 3 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 4 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 5 | Of a sudden Aggie rose from the table and left the room , and the smile slid slowly from Millie 's face and she looked at the funny young man , as she thought of him , and said , ‘ Is she vexed ? ’ |
| 6 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 7 | He took her on a tour of the city , and she enthused over the faded glories of Georgian architecture and the charm of the bridges spanning the river Liffey . |
| 8 | For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight . |
| 9 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 10 | She could see Keith , crouched over his papers , and she rapped on the living-room window to tell him to let her in . |
| 11 | And she went to the front door and knocked , and a little bent-up man appeared … ’ |
| 12 | Returning to the kitchen she heard the sound of a horse and cart in Celtic Crescent and she went to the front door to look out . |
| 13 | And she went through the same circum got exactly the same ending . |
| 14 | to keep her company in the house and she went over the other night she said because when the kids are in bed , she 's on her own |
| 15 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 16 | Which left her free to make mistakes , overdo the set of his features , and she grinned at the strange yet familiar creature , disdainful nose , filll lips and ridiculous chin . |
| 17 | He left her at the large ornate gate , and she walked up the short drive to the front door . |
| 18 | She was aware of faces staring at her as she walked along the paved streets , and she swayed over the uneven surface like a seasick sailor . |
| 19 | " I see , " said Clara , descending : and she thought of the square flat patch that extended beyond her mother 's house at home , and of the grudgingly mown grass , and the dutifully weeded herbaceous borders , and the complaints about neighbouring cats and dogs that would come and dig in the unrewarding earth . |
| 20 | They had left the hospital grounds now , and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car . |
| 21 | Nils shoved her hard and she fell into the deep satin embrace of a sofa . |
| 22 | Half an hour later , the book slipped out of her hand and she fell into the first of the night 's uneasy periods of slumber . |
| 23 | He kissed her , and she thrilled to the familiar hunger in his embrace . |
| 24 | And she tugged at the patterned chenille cloth spread on the table . |
| 25 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 26 | It was very hot and she lay under the single sheet staring up at the high moonlit ceiling and thinking about T. Buckland Kettering . |
| 27 | And she ran to the nearest ladies ' room and emerged with bleary eyes , clutching at her stomach . |
| 28 | And she passed through the sweet shop with a nod towards Nan , who was serving a customer , and out into the street . |
| 29 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |
| 30 | " Will I be wearing it round my neck like a cow-bell for the rest of my life ? " — and she rushed up the spiral steps to her room , to tell herself that she hated João , and Portugal , and even her own mother . |