Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village . |
| 2 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 3 | She passed him with a fractional quickening of her pace . |
| 4 | She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down . |
| 5 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 6 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 7 | She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony . |
| 8 | She fixed him with a glittering emerald stare . |
| 9 | She mimicked him with an Italian accent which always made him laugh . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 11 | ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 14 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 15 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 16 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 17 | While he bent over the cot , she watched him with a mischievous look ; after a little , she said she had a curious pain in her chest . |
| 18 | She quelled her with a brisk command . |
| 19 | ‘ No need to be shy , ’ she reassured him with a professional smile . |
| 20 | Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished . |
| 21 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 22 | She knew it with a dragging certainty . |
| 23 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 24 | Since the plot had the usual operatic complication he had advised her to read the programme notes beforehand , and she perused them with a certain grim incredulity . |
| 25 | She presented them with the annual Child of Achievement awards , given to children who 've overcome extraordinary difficulties just to live a normal life . |
| 26 | She said it with a sly smile ; he had n't mentioned any of his own stay-behind training . |
| 27 | When he opened his mouth , presumably to tell her , and confuse her further , she halted him with a shushing gesture . |
| 28 | Jonas handed out the cups of tea and she accepted hers with a tight smile , not yet ready to forgive him his duplicity . |
| 29 | She replaced it with a frustrated sigh . |
| 30 | When Suor Eusebia saw me she greeted me with an approving smile . |