Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Butterfield 8 ’ she read out in a clear , schoolmarm voice . |
| 2 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 3 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 4 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 5 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 6 | She got off to a bad start on the streets as the child of Bruno Bonney , convicted pimp , pusher , armed robber and bilko artist . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she got out after a painful silence . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables ? ’ she asked excitedly in a high , sweet voice . |
| 9 | ‘ About time she helped out like a dutiful daughter . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 11 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 12 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |
| 13 | She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek , and jerked her hand away from her face . |
| 14 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 15 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 16 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 17 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 18 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 19 | She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face , coming to rest on her mouth . |
| 20 | She exhaled suddenly with a strained laugh . |
| 21 | She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve . |
| 22 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 23 | Finally she came up with a small hand mirror and inspected herself in it . |
| 24 | No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went . |
| 25 | He closed his legs and she came smoothly into a nice even gallop . |
| 26 | She came back with a large smile . |
| 27 | She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs . |
| 28 | And they three came out with honours and she came out with a commended . |
| 29 | The friend was erm pushing her , and she came home with a big bump on her head |
| 30 | She came off to a reasonable round . |