Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Butterfield 8 ’ she read out in a clear , schoolmarm voice . |
| 2 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 3 | She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage . |
| 4 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 5 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables ? ’ she asked excitedly in a high , sweet voice . |
| 7 | ‘ The worm ! ’ she shouted out in a hoarse voice that was still barely her own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She came back in a lively mood dressed in ruby velvet with her furs . |
| 11 | ‘ Naylor ! ’ she sighed again in the utmost rapture , and , clutching him , had not the smallest demur to make when he removed her bra and began to caress the swollen mounds of her pink-tipped breasts . |
| 12 | Wish all over home she fired back in the rapid , unpunctuated shorthand of spelling and sign , blinking through the thick lenses of her glasses . |
| 13 | She arrived promptly in the Green Drawing Room for pre-lunch drinks and then found herself seated next to Prince Andrew , who was on leave from his Royal Navy flying duties . |
| 14 | He reviewed the situation as he gazed unseeingly out of the rain-lashed windows , at the huge bows of Titron , as she wallowed helplessly in the heaving seas . |
| 15 | When Bernard was there , they walked together , and discussed every aspect of the business but , more often , she walked alone in the Welsh hills refining and reiterating silently her philosophy of life . |
| 16 | We were soon alongside the small vessel as she pitched uncomfortably in the short Channel seas at about six knots , and we requested her in our usual polite manner to divert into Folkestone for a customs examination . |
| 17 | She pulled up in a fair-sized stableyard attached to a farm which appeared to be miles from anywhere . |
| 18 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 19 | She curled up in a tight ball as though to stop herself from breaking apart . |
| 20 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 21 | Still shaking somewhat with fright , Millie swallowed twice before she brought out in a small voice , ‘ It 's very nice , thank you . ’ |
| 22 | The impact flung Robbie sideways and she fell heavily in the confined space , striking her head against the side of the boat . |
| 23 | As she drifted mindlessly in the shimmering water all her resistance to the past few days seemed to be dissolving away within the strength and power of his embrace . |
| 24 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 25 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 26 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 27 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 28 | She lay there in the faint moonlit darkness , her face wet from crying , her pulse-rate frantic , completely disorientated for a few seconds . |
| 29 | When at last it was over she lay back in a sleepy state , as a result of too much gin rather than weakness from the birthing , but she no longer felt like cursing James . |
| 30 | She lay back in the musty smelling chair , at peace with the world , and allowed the late April sun to envelop her . |