Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
2 | ‘ In the name of our love , forgive me ! ’ she whispered with a dry mouth . |
3 | ‘ We 've done it , ’ she whispered into the little cave made by her fingers . |
4 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
5 | ‘ What have you done now , Jim ? ’ she whispered in a shaking voice . |
6 | ‘ Oh , look ! ’ she whispered in an awed kind of voice , and flicked a glance from the squirrel to Ven , to find that he was looking — at her ! |
7 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
8 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
9 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
10 | ‘ No , it is n't , ’ she admitted with a self-deprecatory smile , glad to keep the conversation impersonal . |
11 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted with no clear idea whether it was or was n't . |
12 | ‘ I — I 'm afraid so , ’ she admitted in a small voice . |
13 | she admitted in a low voice . |
14 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
15 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
16 | ‘ The TV crew on The Darling Buds Of May know that I hate my backside , so they 're always making little comments , ’ she revealed in an exclusive interview . |
17 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
18 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
19 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
20 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
21 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
24 | An inclination which she shared with every other girl in the school , but her own particular choice was a hymn by J. M. Neale , the first verse of which ran : |
25 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
26 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
27 | She tottered through the open door . |
28 | Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body . |
29 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
30 | I know , too , that my mother valued the people she met here , from the smiles of the young folk to the friends she made at the Senior Citizens ' Lunch Club and Meeting . |