Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He meant , among other things , are you living with anyone ? and she knew it , but she cared too much for the day together to tell him one way or the other . |
| 2 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 3 | She gazed intently back down the road . |
| 4 | Well , she 'd truly burned her boats now , Gina had been thinking as she gazed silently out of the Mercedes 's window at the passing scenery . |
| 5 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 6 | She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring . |
| 7 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |
| 8 | She got up stiffly from the table , with one last look at the scowling form of the man trying to work a way out of his hopeless situation , then walked slowly , limping a little , over the scratched glass floor of the room to the bright chill of the balcony . |
| 9 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 10 | The sooner she got back on to the track the better . |
| 11 | Agnes began to cry , quietly at first , then it mounted into sobs , then almost into hysteria and in it she gabbled out incoherently to the three gaping sisters what had transpired from the time she had taken the linen across to the house . |
| 12 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 13 | And , as she peered more closely into the mirror , she could see that it was drawing closer . |
| 14 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |
| 15 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 16 | Maybe , she reflected , storming round her room to throw some clothes into her suitcase , it was because she rose so satisfactorily to the bait ? |
| 17 | She sagged back on to the ground again . |
| 18 | Raimundo 's shaggy lurchers swarmed round Perdita as she staggered groggily out of the car . |
| 19 | Tugged out of her siesta like a back tooth , she staggered groggily out to the yard . |
| 20 | During the show that night , she tried so hard in the second song , which was now ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ that her voice cracked on ‘ No rosebud is nigh ’ . |
| 21 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 22 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 23 | In any French town of any size at all we find perhaps three or four rival charcutiers displaying trays of shining olives , black and green , large and small , pickled gherkins , capers , home-made mayonnaise grated carrot salad , shredded celeriac in rémoulade sauce , several sorts of tomato salad , sweet-sour onions , champignons à la Grecque , ox or pig 's muzzle finely sliced and dressed with a vinaigrette sauce and fresh parsley , a salad of mussels , another of cervelas sausage ; several kinds of pork pâté ; sausages for grilling , sausages for boiling , sausages for hors-d'oeuvre , flat sausages called cré pinettes for baking or frying , salt pork to enrich stews and soups and vegetable dishes , pigs ' trotters ready cooked and breadcrumbed , so that all you need to do is to take them home and grill them ; cooked ham , raw ham , a galantine of tongue , cold pork and veal roasts , boned stuffed ducks and chickens So it is n't difficult for the housewife in a hurry to buy a little selection , however modest , of these things from the charcuterie , and plus her own imagination and something she has perhaps already in the larder to serve an appetizing and fresh little mixed hors-d'oeuvre . |
| 24 | She swam slowly back to the beach and lay , limp on the yellow mud . |
| 25 | ‘ Has that any special significance ? ’ she asked bravely as she crumpled down on to the blanket and gazed up at him . |
| 26 | She stopped short just inside the kitchen door , startled and alarmed to see such a change in Elizabeth . |
| 27 | She sank down on to the sofa , breathing deeply to steady herself . |
| 28 | She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie . |
| 29 | She wandered slowly back to the garden . |
| 30 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |