Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a long gold chain she carried a Georgian spyglass which she applied in a rather menacing manner to a small , beady eye . |
| 2 | But I think the the where we lived er er there was this woman that was well known for doing , and she lived in a very tiny house . |
| 3 | She lived in a very comfortable pensione near the Piazza Sannazzaro . |
| 4 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 5 | Leaning back against a tree trunk , as though to draw strength from it , she announced in a suddenly firm voice , ‘ I will be rid of you . |
| 6 | When she was about three months pregnant , and feeling totally rejected by everyone , she got into a very depressed state , staying in her room for several days without moving , wondering if this was what it was like to be dead . |
| 7 | ‘ Would it take much work to make it sound and tight again ? ’ she asked in a carefully ordinary voice . |
| 8 | " What have you to say for yourself , child ? " she asked in a dangerously gentle way . |
| 9 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 10 | An intense heat spread through her quivering , eager figure , and she rejoiced in the overwhelmingly sensual pleasure of their entwined bodies , welcoming the deep , shuddering thrust of his virile manhood . |
| 11 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 12 | As the light faded she left the office and returned to her room , where she changed into a more attractive dress and attended to her make-up . |
| 13 | Some of us prefer to keep our feet on solid ground , ’ she added with a deliberately contrived laugh . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps that 's why I never seem to have any , ’ she added in a more resigned voice . |
| 16 | Then she added in an oddly tantalising tone , ‘ Today 's my morning at the hospital . ’ |
| 17 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 18 | At the end of the road she had to make a right turn when , a few hundred yards later , she came across the most elegant four-storeyed building . |
| 19 | She came to a very sad decision . |
| 20 | Although she came from a financially privileged background , her education was superficial , governesses being followed by day-schools , a brief interlude at King 's College , London , where she possibly read Latin , continental history , mathematics , and elementary science for two terms , and a year in Dresden . |
| 21 | This may say something about Bridget Freemantle , that she did not stand on her dignity in her friendship with the poet , even though she came from a more genteel background , and was about the age of Leapor 's parents . |
| 22 | She came from a very serious , Puritan family . |
| 23 | His wife was Elizabeth Adlam , whom he had married in 1765 ; baptised in 1737 , daughter of William and Ann , she came from a fairly prolific Frome family . |
| 24 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 25 | In 1793 she replied to the politically radical Letters from France of Helen Maria Williams [ q.v. ] with Letters on the Female Mind , its Powers and Pursuits . |
| 26 | Maggie had thought there might be a sign of deference in the fat girl 's voice when she replied to the somewhat intimidating supervisor , but there was n't . |
| 27 | Too frightened to brave the front of the hotel , she found the staff stairs to escape by , and she hid behind a peculiarly luscious tropical plant until she saw the porter waiting perplexedly beside the taxi she 'd ordered . |
| 28 | ‘ She acted in a very calm manner — remarkably so considering the trauma she was being put through . |
| 29 | A strong bond based on a frankness about his own lifestyle was formed between father and daughter as she developed into a quietly studious girl who enjoyed her excursions to visit her father at work on the film sets . |
| 30 | Educated at home , she developed into a socially ambitious and remarkably beautiful young woman . |