Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
| 2 | Mr Barker said he had n't insisted that the customer should produce a banker 's card because she lived within a few doors of the shop . |
| 3 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 4 | She passed within a few feet of an arrow slit from which a light showed , but she was too far away to see into the room where the verderers were . |
| 5 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 6 | She approached by the same route she and Beador had taken the previous day . |
| 7 | Hours later she woke to the same sensation of calm fulfilment . |
| 8 | She drove for a few minutes in silence , then she said , ‘ You know what I 'm going back to ? ’ |
| 9 | She came at the same time ; then , as he lay there , quivering in his spent heat , she rolled off him and on to her knees . |
| 10 | As she came within a few yards of it , however , a shudder passed down its spine , and it rolled over , showing its face to the sleet . |
| 11 | She arrived at the same moment as Nina and they saw that Greg was already unlocking the factory ambulance and David was in consultation with one of the factory managers . |
| 12 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 13 | She started with a few pounds , about four thousand pounds which she managed to wangle from the local bank manager , a great vision , an enthusiasm but very little experience . |
| 14 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 15 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 16 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 17 | In 1852 he moved with his mother to Sheffield , where she died after a few months . |
| 18 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 19 | Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return . |
| 20 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 21 | She struggled for a few moments until , overcome apparently by shock , she lost consciousness . |
| 22 | Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 . |
| 23 | She lay for a few moments watching the patterns it made on the ceiling . |
| 24 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 25 | Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well . |
| 26 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 27 | She leaned for a few minutes on the stone parapet overlooking the river , shading her eyes against the glitter of sunlight on the water and feeling its warmth soaking into her bones , before crossing the road and plunging into the narrow streets of the old town . |
| 28 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 29 | ‘ Mm , that 's better ! ’ she said after a few mouthfuls . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's good , ’ she said after a few moments . |