Example sentences of "she [vb past] with the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 2 | She rose with the fluent movement of the athlete . |
| 3 | She staggered with the laden trug to where the buffers stood up like huge metal pennies on their sides preventing the train from going any further . |
| 4 | Barefoot , she moved with the natural sinuousness of her race , and looking beyond her , Loc saw Jacques Devraux lift his eyes momentarily from his plate to follow the swaying movement of her hips as she walked away from the table . |
| 5 | Without consideration he ripped the tape from her skin so that she winced with the searing pain . |
| 6 | She woke with the tortured sound of ripped metal flailing against earth and stones . |
| 7 | She played with the sparkling ring on her finger . |
| 8 | to the park where she played with the stolen child . |
| 9 | ‘ You have a slight fever , I think , ’ she replied with the quiet firmness she would have used towards any sick person . |
| 10 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 11 | Hussa was a large , enveloping woman with a large , enveloping sense of humour ; she walked with the rolling gait of a shore-bound sailor and her veils had such a haphazard permanence , you felt they were an outgrowth of her personality rather than a covering . |
| 12 | Quite glad to abandon what was turning out to be a very wet hunt , she walked with the little girl back to the hotel . |
| 13 | A week later she returned with the unfortunate animal in a box . |
| 14 | When she returned with the main meal , Penry sniffed ecstatically . |
| 15 | This remark she delivered with the immense complacency of the wise virgin ; Clara could not help but feel that having men in only when things went wrong was not as wildly eccentric as her mother supposed , but as she knew no other way , no other world , she could not be sure . |
| 16 | She worked with the regional adviser in religious and moral education and became involved in teacher' in-service training particularly concerning multicultural education . |
| 17 | Betty 's classroom practice changed whilst she worked with the advisory teacher , but the lack of congruence between her beliefs about mathematics and about how children learn and those behind the innovation , made it unlikely that such changes would be sustained once he left . |
| 18 | Ey she looked with the red scarf who 's been having problems with it ! |
| 19 | She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ? |
| 20 | Miss Philimore 's self-satisfied tones came back to her as she fumbled with the tiny envelope . |
| 21 | Her face taut with anger , Gina 's fingers trembled uncontrollably as she fumbled with the unfamiliar fastening of the seatbelt . |
| 22 | People I had n't yet identified beckoned her eagerly to join them , which she did with the ravishing smile she had loosed once or twice in my direction . |
| 23 | ‘ I ai n't nobody 's master , ’ she said with the slight thrust of her jaw which always amused and moved him . |
| 24 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , Jack Lawrence , you old romantic ! ’ she teased with the last remnant of her sense of humour , and he smiled a slow , lazy smile . |