Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] a [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 | ‘ What have you done now , Jim ? ’ she whispered in a shaking voice . |
4 | ‘ 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 ! |
5 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
6 | ‘ No , it is n't , ’ she admitted with a self-deprecatory smile , glad to keep the conversation impersonal . |
7 | ‘ I — I 'm afraid so , ’ she admitted in a small voice . |
8 | she admitted in a low voice . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
11 | ‘ 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
16 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
17 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
18 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
19 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
20 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
21 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
22 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
23 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
24 | She paid her bill and wandered back to where she had parked the car in a shady spot under an orange tree in a square — She did n't know a lot about Fernando Serra , she realised with a dull bumping of her heart . |
25 | No — it was n't fear of being alone she was experiencing , she realised with a hollow pang inside — it was something much more basic than that , but just as alien to her character . |
26 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
27 | Except , she realised with a sudden sense of shock , the ship was moving and she had n't even noticed until now . |
28 | SHe realised with a dreadful clench of the stomach that SHe was a morsel of raw flesh being thrown into a blood-spiced pool of hungry sharks . |
29 | She realised with a sinking heart that the longer her mother-in-law remained at the Manor , the more difficult it would be to dislodge her . |
30 | And that , she realised with an increasing feeling of horror , was the whole awful crux of the matter . |