Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sighed and relaxed and when his lips sought hers again she met them with matching urgency . |
| 2 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 3 | She got herself in big trouble ! |
| 4 | Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ? |
| 5 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 6 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 7 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 8 | Then she tried 'em with new make-up On a sponsored run round Bacup , And at Norwich for a porridge Eating contest which she won . |
| 9 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 10 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 11 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |
| 12 | After winning the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Prize in 1964 , she found herself in great demand abroad as well as at home , and sang in the first performance of Handel 's Messiah in Israel . |
| 13 | She cast herself into heated ovens or boiling cauldrons , was immersed in the freezing waters of a mill-race in winter and hunted by a pack of dogs through thorny thickets . |
| 14 | She cradled herself in crossed arms . |
| 15 | She fixed him with anxious eyes . |
| 16 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 17 | She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 19 | I meant to ask her about it this afternoon , but she 'd lots of other people there . |
| 20 | Her hands rested on it as she surveyed me with calm enquiry . |
| 21 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 23 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 25 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 26 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 27 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll sign the agreement , ’ she told him in clipped tones . |
| 29 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 30 | ‘ And remember , ’ she told herself with growing horror , ‘ what Mr Bishop 's brother said ! |