Example sentences of "and she [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she looked for a way out , though she knew there was none . |
| 2 | Her hair was dressed in a pyramid of fat ringlets and she looked like a Restoration wench , maid to Millamant , scene stealer , fit to be kissed in corners . |
| 3 | For the first time in her life Horatia was terrified of Rossmayne There was insanity in his eyes , and she knew without a doubt that at that moment he wanted to murder her . |
| 4 | Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine . |
| 5 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 6 | Halfway there and she felt like a break . |
| 7 | Jessie was sitting up straight now , the tears running down her face , and she asked as a child might , ‘ What am I going to do ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Lola is very powerful and very sensitive and she goes through a lot of changes . |
| 9 | She said in a statement that there was a lot of blood and she went to a neighbour for help . |
| 10 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 11 | all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one . |
| 12 | Graham felt that this sent a powerful if implicit message to school students that men were more important than women , and she embarked on a project to make a less biased , more representative dictionary . |
| 13 | And she died of a cancer and er so did me father , and probably so shall I , but if a cancer do n't kill me summat else will . |
| 14 | On Top Of The Pops I told her I was in love with her — and she laughed like a drain . |
| 15 | The gown slipped soundlessly from her shoulders and she tiptoed like a shadow towards him . |
| 16 | ‘ Be reasonable , ’ Johnny whispered , and she thought for a moment that he was going to hit her . |
| 17 | His lips hesitated , and she thought for a moment that he was going to draw her away , but he gave a low groan and his mouth moved against hers again . |
| 18 | And she thought for a moment of little Mrs Richards , and the regrets she had lived with for fifty years . |
| 19 | " She was hunting rats on the wharf and she fell into a clay lighter , Mercantile Lighterage Limited , flag black diamond on broad white band . " |
| 20 | He hit her violently several times , on both sides of the head , and she fell into a chair , trembling . |
| 21 | But while they hesitated and debated , Lucy 's strength ebbed away and she fell in a swoon , putting to death a hundred thousand insects beneath her lovely body . |
| 22 | Feargal was there before her , and she halted for a moment to watch him . |
| 23 | He left the room and she tugged on a sweater and put the jacket back on just as he came back in . |
| 24 | There was a movement at the door of the office and she stiffened for a moment , remembering Jarrett Keach 's warning about security . |
| 25 | His eyes dropped blatantly downward and she remembered with a start that she was wearing only a flimsy nightdress , barely skimming the tops of her slender thighs . |
| 26 | And she slipped like a ghost into the shadows and ran down the gallery . |
| 27 | It was cooler tonight than it had been of late , besides which she no longer dared to sleep in her underwear , and she pulled on a shortie nightshirt , a farewell present from her brothers . |
| 28 | During World War I she was amongst the pacifist seceders from the NUWSS and she worked as a representative of the No-Conscription Fellowship for conscientious objectors at their trials by tribunal and for the Women 's Peace Crusade . |
| 29 | And Hilda was her maiden name , last seen forty nine years ago , she lived on Estate , , Nottingham and she worked as a labeller in the bottle department of Brewery . |
| 30 | Pollock took the studio on the property they bought in Springs , and she worked in a bedroom . |