Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 2 | She suddenly felt in a great hurry to escape , instinctively disliking this pretty , richly-dressed young American . |
| 3 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |
| 4 | She only stayed for a few months , then she became unwell and had to give up the job . |
| 5 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 6 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 7 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 8 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 9 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 10 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |
| 11 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 12 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
| 13 | Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia . |
| 14 | She also looked like a total wreck ! |
| 15 | And I have a feeling- ’ She now drew in a long breath before resuming ‘ And it 's more than a feeling , it 's a certainty that , although we 're leaving here , being forced to leave here , we 'll return , for this is our home . |
| 16 | Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oögenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon . |
| 17 | The Nubian looked up from the couch where she half lay by a low table on which a number of limestone flakes were scattered . |
| 18 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |