Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |
| 2 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 3 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 4 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 5 | She had wanted so desperately to find out the truth about Luke , but now that was the last thing she wanted to know . |
| 6 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 7 | In truth she had done remarkably well staying out of her clutches for the past three days , but then , she reflected ruefully , Adam had kept his promise , staying practically glued to her side . |
| 8 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 9 | She had spent too long getting dressed , changing again and again , because her thighs looked bigger in every pair of trousers that she put on . |
| 10 | Her pity for the man she had hurt so deeply made her behave more kindly towards him than was perhaps sensible . |
| 11 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 12 | She had left so much undone . |
| 13 | The tendency of sergeants to follow the field-worker around and to ask what she had learnt also soon dissipated as the routine demands of their job became a more pressing priority . |
| 14 | I back toward the door trying to shush her , till she stops shouting long enough to ask , ‘ What sort of business are you in that uses kids as errand boys ? ’ |