Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart was pounding fearfully as she slowly looked over her shoulder . |
| 2 | She was so impressed she apparently forgot about her appointment with Mrs Major , who was waiting patiently in the Savoy powder room . |
| 3 | Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there , she swiftly gave in her notice . |
| 4 | Then she suddenly slapped at her apron pocket . |
| 5 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |
| 6 | ‘ Some books , ’ she finally murmured into her teacup , while she tried quietly to increase the distance between her and the tea pourer . |
| 7 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 8 | This was the year she finally emerged from her shell to win every round in a public relations battle she was determined should go her way . |
| 9 | Had she not thought of her mistress first ? |
| 10 | She just looked through her pony 's ears at where she hoped he would land . |
| 11 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 12 | She scarcely heard in her humiliation . |
| 13 | And erm she always thought of her husband as daddy . |
| 14 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 15 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 16 | With cautiously gloved hands , Ace flicked through papers from a locked cabinet , which she had opened by means of a knife she usually concealed in her boot . |
| 17 | Barely waiting for a reply , Candy all but ran off down the garden path , leaving Rory feeling more alone and more vulnerable than she ever had in her life . |
| 18 | Fifteen minutes later , however , and Fabia 's anger , like her shower water , had drained away , and she was feeling unhappier than she ever had in her life . |
| 19 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |
| 20 | Did she ever talk about her life before she came to England ? |
| 21 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 22 | And they 'd told her that if she ever talked about her experience I was liable to have a very nasty accident , probably fatal . ’ |
| 23 | The hurt look vanished and she promptly forgot about her hair . |
| 24 | She still slept at her flat , where Jack either spent the night , as under the previous arrangement , or arrived back very late ‘ not disturbing ’ Franca , who had until today ( also without comment ) continued to sleep in the upper bedroom . |
| 25 | This time , of course , she was not only armed with the foreknowledge of what would be said but she still had in her mind the conversation we had just had about making mistakes . |
| 26 | Her eyes strayed to the card that she still held in her hand and she almost started as she saw , written in plain bold print , a name that had featured with such regularity recently in the headlines of the business section of the local newspaper that she could not fail to recognise it . |
| 27 | And Madame Dietrich describes this in a letter which she later wrote to her brother . |
| 28 | She also wrote to her brother , whom she had mostly but not altogether forgiven for his betrayal of her to her mother . |
| 29 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 30 | If she really raced on her bike over the footpath , she might just manage to get to the low bridge before the van reached it . |