Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nervously dipped the top half of her body forward in a half-hearted curtsey . |
| 2 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 3 | But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp . |
| 4 | She eventually carried the Welsh language with her , later in life , to the clannish Welsh community that developed around the Great Western Railway works in Swindon . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I need the work , Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , her eyes twinkling as she gently raised the old lady a little and placed an extra pillow at her back . |
| 6 | Instead of squirming about helplessly as intended , she gently caressed the strange hand with her own . |
| 7 | Then one evening after Pack Meeting , when she was folding up her uniform to put it away , she suddenly noticed the Six emblem on it . |
| 8 | Then she suddenly got the wild idea that you might have taken it to attack Alain . |
| 9 | Behind her Rose followed her at a wheezing trot , keeping up with her , until she suddenly mastered the antiquated machine , and sped away , feeling like a Swiss mountaineer with his St Bernard dog , setting off on his errand of mercy . |
| 10 | She stood motionless , wondering what he was about to do , and as he moved closer she suddenly had the ridiculous impression he was going to kiss her . |
| 11 | Melissa gave a mischievous grimace as she suddenly remembered the disapproving gleam in her friend 's eye on learning where she was spending the evening and , possibly , the night . |
| 12 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 13 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |
| 14 | One of the shawled women must have seen Sharpe and Doggett approaching for she suddenly called the small girl who ran nervously towards the thatched cottage . |
| 15 | And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own . |
| 16 | It did n't frighten her ; she merely disliked the physical act of getting on a plane and sitting there for the duration of the journey . |
| 17 | But even she only reached the 2nd round , before losing to Larisa Savchenko . |
| 18 | At first she only saw the dark shape of the forest beside the road , then as her eyes adjusted to a faint lifting of the gloom a narrow laneway appeared between the trees . |
| 19 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 20 | mother and she only had the one daughter and the daughter got married and oh she had about oh ten or eleven children and they 're all running round in this back yard |
| 21 | She only had the one dress , and a cloak , both worn and thin . |
| 22 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
| 23 | ‘ Eureka ! ’ she muttered triumphantly as she finally spotted the elusive hotel , and drew into its car park . |
| 24 | It took a long time , but she finally got the drunken figure out of the door and closed it firmly behind him . |
| 25 | Somehow , over the running water , she finally heard the loud knocking on the cabin door . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 27 | After several years of sheer hard work and dedicated self-sacrifice , which involved giving up her fine mansion and living in cheap lodgings , she finally turned the bankrupt enterprise around and by 1904 was able to sell her shares in Dillwyn & Co. at a very substantial profit to the German industrial giant , Metallgesellschaft of Frankfurt , which was then striving to create an international monopoly of zinc manufacture . |
| 28 | I kept stealing glances in her direction — she soon lost the baleful expression — people look quite benign when they 're asleep . |
| 29 | This was unusual , as she generally preferred the lounging chair on the veranda , ‘ so that I do n't feel completely bedridden , ’ and Belinda hoped she was not going to lie there and brood about the issue of the amniocentesis . |
| 30 | She just saw the slight frown on his brow by candlelight . |