Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Captain had no sooner opened his mouth to say : ‘ Your husband is n't in … ? ’ than she took out a crumpled handkerchief and huge tears were rolling down her fat cheeks . |
| 2 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 3 | His mouth was hot as it explored her lips , his teeth nipping at her lower lip , sending exquisite frissons along her nerves until she let out a small gasp . |
| 4 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 5 | He held out the clipboard impatiently as if she quibbled over a minor detail . |
| 6 | It is one belief , for example , that a woman will obtain children if she walks around a sacred tree 108 times dally for 48 consecutive days . |
| 7 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 8 | Debbie 's lawyer , John Christiansen , said she can claim half their assets , because she gave up a promising tennis career for Fred 's sake . |
| 9 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 10 | She had not walked a hundred metres before she tripped over a loose stone and went crashing over a steep overhang . |
| 11 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |
| 12 | But when she reached out a hesitant hand , the heat from the liquid was so intense that she could not get any nearer to it . |
| 13 | She used to walk with two sticks , but fell down at her 90th birthday party when she stumbled over a low table and broke her hip again . |
| 14 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 15 | ‘ When she put out a few signals that she — well , fancied me , you can guess how I felt . |
| 16 | Irresistible charm is brought to bear again as she butters up a worthy old bag ( ‘ unpleasant ’ ) who has a few tedious objections to our Hildamay waltzing off with her granddaughter . |
| 17 | A WOMAN who was spotted breastfeeding her baby as she drove along a busy main road was being hunted last night . |
| 18 | She explained to Farmer Plant how she used the outjutting twin branches of the tree as her pony , as she had n't a real one to ride , and how she was working for the Pony Rider badge . |
| 19 | It was good advice , as she discovered just a few miles out of town when , as he 'd predicted , she found herself in a very different environment . |
| 20 | ‘ How long 's this been going on ? ’ she asked gently as she cleaned up a nasty cut on the woman 's arm . |
| 21 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 22 | Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau . |
| 23 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 24 | One of her first arrivals at Heathrow gave the British tabloids a field day as she climbed off a long-haul flight from Australia in the same travel-weary outfit she had boarded in . |
| 25 | Theresa Stevens , 21 , was beaten , repeatedly stabbed and strangled as she put up a desperate fight to save herself . |
| 26 | ‘ We had a photographer here , once , from a colour supplement , ’ Finn told Melanie one morning as she exclaimed over a fresh assortment of jumping-jacks ( soldiers in red jackets , each sporting a row of meticulously painted medals ) that they were too good for children . |