Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
2 | She found them in the Green Room . |
3 | ‘ You do n't need to come down with me , ’ she advised him in a stifled tone as she moved towards the door . |
4 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
5 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
6 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she told him in a hoarse whisper , ‘ you must believe that … ’ |
7 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
8 | ‘ Yous all too late fer lunch , dat finished gone an hour ago , ’ she informed them in no uncertain terms . |
9 | ‘ I would n't have done any speculating at all , ’ she informed him in a trembling voice , ‘ if you could bring yourself to be honest with me ! ’ |
10 | ‘ I 'm going to find the nearest policeman , ’ she informed him in an icy voice . |
11 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
12 | He tried to kiss her , but she evaded him in a half-angry , half-flirtatious way , so they were in the middle of a clumsy clinch when Lucaroni walked in . |
13 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
14 | She repeated it in a dull , polite way . |
15 | ‘ Do n't touch me , Luke , ’ she warned him in a low , intense voice . |
16 | ‘ Love 's little death , ’ she corrected him in a stifled voice . |
17 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
18 | She kept them in a black velvet bag and would occasionally take them out , when Wakelate was busy , to stand them in the sunlight . |
19 | She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk ! |
20 | To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins . |
21 | ‘ Kirsty 's my sister , ’ she reminded him in a sharp tone . |
22 | She marched him in an exact 15 metre circle . |
23 | But his wife now , she liked them in a motherly kind of way . |
24 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
25 | She had them in a big glass jar and if you were very good and special occasions . |
26 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |
27 | ‘ We can but of course it wo n't be as easy for us to get away once Maggie is gone , ’ she said it in a pleasant way that sometimes humoured him and sometimes could put his teeth on edge . |
28 | The next time she said , ‘ Give me some chicken , ’ she said it in the vacant lot behind the Commercial Hotel , and it was a different kind of chicken altogether . |
29 | Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow . |
30 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |