Example sentences of "[prep] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vulcan B.2 XH558 was back home after her last-ever show and might have made her last ever flight . |
| 2 | She had been tired after her early shift , which had necessitated getting up at six ; perhaps that was why she had slipped so easily into that state of contented , almost hypnotic languor . |
| 3 | Tuan Ti Fo took one step towards her then stopped , seeing her there in the shadows . |
| 4 | He offered the pink blossom to his chick , who twirled it in front of her briefly lit face before dropping it to the ground . |
| 5 | Her critics thought it crude of her not to care what they thought of her . |
| 6 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |
| 7 | Doubts arose over the length of time which might elapse before the child ceased to be regarded as ‘ newly born ’ , and the Infanticide Act 1938 extended the definition to the killing of a child within twelve months of its birth by a mother whose mind is disturbed either by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child . |
| 8 | Those closest to her were never aware of her not working . |
| 9 | ‘ There is a high risk of her not surviving the transplant but she is in a hole now . |
| 10 | How typical of her not to tell me . |
| 11 | At the time of her appointment , Fohrbeck , who is a distinguished sociologist and studied under the renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas , made no mention of her firmly held and openly practised faith . |
| 12 | Its editor is Jaynie Anderson , whose biography of Morelli , along with a wealth of her newly discovered material on him , is included . |
| 13 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 14 | And if given to us as actual temptations , the rather lure of the church , the Reverend Simon Stephen Daedalus SJ , and the lure of the flesh ‘ He closed his eyes , surrendering himself to her body and mind , conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips ’ . |
| 15 | Positive as ever , however , Kylie did admit to looking forward to one element of her new found freedom . |
| 16 | Again Leith wanted to tell him he could forget all idea of her ultimately becoming his cousin by marriage , but again , she found she could not . |
| 17 | The eerie stillness of a town asleep caught at the edges of her already stretched nerves , and she shivered with apprehension as well as from the biting wind . |
| 18 | Only the hawk-faced man ahead of her just sidestepped the line . |
| 19 | Or perhaps , as Charlotte was reluctant to admit to herself , some part of her secretly approved of this blow at the heart of Maurice 's greed and Ursula 's complacency . |
| 20 | Any more of her little digs at me and her sickening smiles of lust at Luke and I shall vomit . |
| 21 | One can well understand , of course , her lack of desire for another child when they already had eight to feed and clothe , and naturally she can have had no idea of the effect on Eileen of her casually spoken words . |
| 22 | In view of her continuously rising urea and creatinine concentrations and persistent oliguria , plans were made for haemoperfusion . |
| 23 | Lee ‘ s briskness had been a last stand and she was ready to turn and walk down the five flights of stairs again when the door in front of her suddenly swung open and Lee found herself walking through the doorway . |
| 24 | For at this moment , standing here beside him , part of her really wanted to believe in things that could never , ever be . |
| 25 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 26 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 27 | He later said his first impression of her then had been , ‘ What a very jolly and amusing and attractive sixteen-year-old . |
| 28 | I place an ashtray on the bed in front of her then lean over for a kiss . |
| 29 | There 's a lot of bourgeois about him , she was thinking , but only mildly critical because of her now established respect for him . |
| 30 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |