Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted him a scornful glance . |
| 2 | He begged her not to miss the party they were invited to on his account , so she made him a hot drink , turned on the TV and , making no bones about it , said she would be back in the morning . |
| 3 | Her hand came up and she caught him a stinging blow across the cheek , watching without a flicker as the mark turned first white , then red . |
| 4 | They met ; he found her company agreeable , she found him a new slogan . |
| 5 | She found him a new toothbrush in its unbroken wrap , and said , ‘ It 's a pity about Sir George . |
| 6 | She cast him a scathing look . |
| 7 | She darted him a quick smile . |
| 8 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 9 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 10 | She threw him a cool look as she scooped the papers from his desk . |
| 11 | She threw him a cool look . |
| 12 | She threw him a wide smile . |
| 13 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 14 | She threw him a suspicious look . |
| 15 | She threw him a quick glance . |
| 16 | She threw him a quick glance . |
| 17 | Then she threw him a shrewd look . |
| 18 | She threw him a scathing look . |
| 19 | Her nails black , her fingers blistered and nicotine-stained , she handed me a brown paper-bag . |
| 20 | She showed me a half-built kennel block . |
| 21 | She showed me a large bag made of toughened brown paper with a sealing device at the mouth . |
| 22 | She showed me a little bottle before we got back on the truck . |
| 23 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 24 | This was where she bade him a pleasant goodnight , Fabia knew , and she fully intended to do just that . |
| 25 | For some reason she felt she owed him a serious answer . |
| 26 | She called me a Black bitch . |
| 27 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 29 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 30 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |