Example sentences of "she [be] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France . |
| 2 | Debbie suddenly ca n't resist cheese — one reason she 's slowly regaining the three stones she lost recently . |
| 3 | Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's |
| 4 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | and she was upstairs cleaning the other |
| 6 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
| 7 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 8 | Rain had no clear idea what to do with her , apart from taking her to the Villa Fiesole , and she was already seeing the warped logic of Edouard 's argument : Barbara Coleman might be safer where she was . |
| 9 | She was already feeling the restorative effects of the brandy . |
| 10 | She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon , which she had somehow got hold of . |
| 11 | Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers . |
| 12 | I mean she was only seeing the last one off when I came home from work ! |
| 13 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 14 | And in her hand she was still holding the red geranium . |
| 15 | ‘ She was still wearing the same clothes which she disappeared in . |
| 16 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 17 | She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she 'd worn in the prison hospital , but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well . |
| 18 | She was still wearing the green woollen dress , but now her fine figure looked what it was — a wreck of ancient splendour , collapsed , ravaged . |
| 19 | She was still wearing the clinging black dress and seemed to have passed a stressful evening , to judge by the dark smudges beneath her eyes and the odd loose strand in her previously immaculate hair . |
| 20 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 21 | She was too to enjoy the hot weather and little beads of perspiration shone on her forehead as she sat down at the big desk opposite the row of girls . |
| 22 | As Ellen Smyth said , " women did for 14s the same work as men for 32s " .74 ( She was actually quoting the lowest rates : Amelia McLean pointed out that " stab girls " made between 15s and 25s , while piece workers got 14s to 16s ; " if all the girls in the different occupations in Edinburgh had such a wage , there would not be much to grumble about " . ) |
| 23 | Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be . |
| 24 | The sooner she was long gone the better . |