Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 2 | And the undulants displayed a conspicuous electric field whenever they moved ; she 'd felt it as static whenever they touched-her . |
| 3 | She 'd disliked him intensely last night . |
| 4 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 5 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 6 | Bursting into her life with a devastating charm , he had undermined her defences with skill , until she had faced him as defenceless as a de-shelled crab , and he had destroyed her illusions with the cruel indifference of a natural predator . |
| 7 | She had aroused him so much that he wanted to take her here and now , on the ground . |
| 8 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 9 | It was the first time she had seen him really abashed . |
| 10 | She had frightened him properly this time . |
| 11 | For the first time in years Harriet was overwhelmed by a wave of homesickness , and not now for New York , but for the haven of her London flat , the bolt-hole she had made her very own . |
| 12 | Especially since she had made it very clear that she did n't want to stay . |
| 13 | Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it . |
| 14 | She had made it quite plain that she was not about to stay here at all , but Alain had outmanoeuvred her with ease . |
| 15 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 16 | And that she had made it perfectly clear that , to her , fidelity and trust meant more than just nothing — meant everything , in fact . |
| 17 | Your new book was on the table by her chair and she said she had liked it very much — ‘ a good writer , a good interesting writer ’ . |
| 18 | She had kicked her very hard and Margaret was smaller than her . |
| 19 | This thought had crossed Robyn 's mind before , but she had suppressed it as ignoble . |
| 20 | Mitch glared at her as if she had ordered him back all by herself . |
| 21 | He was about to take her hand but , remembering she had found his unpleasantly sticky , he thought better of it . |
| 22 | It was not the intimate physical contact with her cousin which upset her , but the fact that subconsciously she felt so very guilty because she had enjoyed it so much . |
| 23 | She had offered her immaculately powdered cheek to each man and had received a kiss from everyone . |
| 24 | Clara often thought that Mrs Maugham 's attitudes towards the television typified her whole moral outlook ; before acquiring it , she had considered it infinitely vulgar and debased ; after acquiring it she considered all those without it as highbrows , intellectual snobs , or paupers , while still managing to retain her scorn for all those who had had it before the precisely tasteful , worthy and perceptive moment at which she had herself succumbed to its charms . |
| 25 | The last one had caused her to slip and she had jarred her already sore wrist by flinging out a hand to save herself . |
| 26 | As soon as Fosdyke had taken the pictures , she felt that she had shown him too much of her private life and put out her hand to receive them back . |
| 27 | That idea had occurred to Lisa , but she had discarded it as unthinkable . |
| 28 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |