Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a backward glance she walked slowly towards his table . |
| 2 | When he drew back to skim a line of kisses down the slender column of her neck to where a pulse was beating in a frenzied rhythm she moaned softly , glorying in the feel of his mouth on her skin . |
| 3 | Then , giving in to the grief she 'd always kept bottled up , she buried her face against his shoulder and wept like a baby for the mother she had loved and lost . |
| 4 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 5 | His haste gave her an uncanny feeling he was trying to escape from an unseen force — or perhaps from herself — and in her efforts to reach his side she panted breathlessly , ‘ Do you intend breaking into a gallop — ? ’ |
| 6 | And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’ |
| 7 | It had to be a lie to write Cara 's name on any card she sent home , did n't it ? |
| 8 | At the centre of a triangle of twenty-two cards , within a rectilinear arch constructed from the rest , lay the single card she had consciously chosen to represent herself . |
| 9 | But he had a problem : the card she had so rapidly thrust into his hand was her business card , no home address , just Belmodes , Mouncy Street , which he knew but where he did not want to wait to visit . |
| 10 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 11 | She thought of a tired analogy she had often heard , people in a crowded train compared to sardines in a tin . |
| 12 | Another example of Portia 's dishonesty is shown when she tests Bassanio with the ring she had just given to him . |
| 13 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
| 14 | It was Paul 's obsessive jealousy which had diseased and finally destroyed her feelings for him , even though it was an emotion she had never fully understood — until now . |
| 15 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 16 | The only emotion she had ever truly felt for him was love . |
| 17 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 18 | Then as he went towards his car she stiffened suddenly . |
| 19 | The driver of the car she had so nearly collided with . |
| 20 | She walked with him to the garage , and as he got into her car she leaned forward and kissed his cheek lightly . |
| 21 | Turning over , she looked up at Damien 's dog-face , and then sat up quickly , trying to repair or disguise the ravages to her appearance caused by the emotional racking she had just endured . |
| 22 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 23 | To Agnes 's mind she laughed too much . |
| 24 | However , with youthful if foolish optimism she had proudly assured him that she would find a solution to the problem . |
| 25 | Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ? |
| 26 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 27 | And then then the next and then then in geography she says right what 's your mark all sweetly . |
| 28 | The cell she occupied overnight was clean , and she was treated humanely . |
| 29 | As she picked up her third sandwich she looked across at him , slightly self-conscious about her ravenous appetite . |
| 30 | But before the decision had been made Wilson was astonished to receive the speediest reply she had ever had from Ellen and quite the longest . |