Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly she looked older than twenty-seven .
2 Suddenly she looked old .
3 Then suddenly she became aware of how inelegant she must look , sprawled there with her skirt up around her hips and her bra dangling out of her open blouse .
4 Suddenly she felt tired , and she had no desire to get into a harangue with him .
5 Breeze saw that the man was desperately afraid , and suddenly she felt sorry for him .
6 The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold .
7 Suddenly she felt shy and nervous .
8 Suddenly she felt nervous , though she fought not to show it .
9 Suddenly she felt confused , uncertain of what she was being accused of and equally uncertain of how to defend herself .
10 Suddenly she felt old and out of date .
11 Suddenly she felt ashamed , oddly narrow-minded .
12 Suddenly she felt sick .
13 Suddenly she felt afraid when she heard the terrible name .
14 Suddenly she felt afraid of where this might be leading .
15 Suddenly she felt cold .
16 Suddenly she felt appalled by her own youth and inexperience .
17 Suddenly she felt angry with herself for having let her emotions get out of control .
18 And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her .
19 Suddenly she released all the tenseness from her muscles , he relaxed his hold slightly , a surprised expression on his face that she should capitulate so easily , and she lifted her head with cold pride in every line of her body .
20 Suddenly she came alive and her hazel eyes lit up as she took out a large album from a walnut bureau .
21 Suddenly she stopped relaxing and concentrated .
22 Then suddenly she stopped dead , realising that , if Naylor thought she had n't yet completely finished with Travis , then he was just angry enough — and blunt enough — to do it for her .
23 Suddenly she stopped dead .
24 Suddenly she stopped struggling , and as the knocking came again she began to cry .
25 While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters .
26 Sometimes the dominant female is so powerful that only she becomes pregnant and her subordinates must await her demise before being able to breed themselves .
27 Apparently she likes tumbling
28 All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed .
29 Impatiently she wrenched open the door and taking the pennies from her pocket , picked up the receiver with a hand that shook .
30 Or perhaps she gets two hundred pounds a week pocket money right ?
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