Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly she saw Nan Mahon .
2 Suddenly she sat bolt upright , horrified as a new thought struck home .
3 Suddenly she wanted permanence more than anything .
4 Suddenly she caught sight of the child 's mother .
5 Suddenly she caught sight of St Ives seated with Dawn Allenby in a corner of the restaurant .
6 If only she had time .
7 " Only she gave birth to his baby , sir . "
8 Perhaps she lacked confidence to find a job outside the house or manage contraception efficiently .
9 Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst .
10 No i I phoned insurance up and told them what they 'd said , cos I got Maggie to phone , it were Maggie that said , they told Maggie that they were gon na put a second hand wheel on and everything instead of a brand new one so she told insurance about it .
11 So she checked Hullabaloo , and , to her surprise , the horse came back to her , perhaps having now learned to trust his new jockey .
12 So she said dad 's got to go straight down now for emergency surgery , come on then , for emergency surgery and they want you to be there before he goes , oh christ perhaps I 'm
13 So she said mum she said I 've got ta take it so
14 The Camel 's here so she had hold of the steering with one hand she was smoking the other with the window down and Nick wanted to put his window down .
15 Diver or something , honest-to-god I do n't have a clue what they actually do up there , do n't ask me — anyway , seems This Chap had Two Boys , one teenage , the other growing out of anoraks faster than look-at-you so She put pressure on him .
16 So she remained standing , and asked , ‘ How did you find out ? ’
17 So she changed direction again and found herself walking down to the prom and out along the beach to Seal Sands Lock .
18 So she organised cabaret evenings and discos to help buy a scanner for the Barrow Infirmary .
19 So she did washing for William van Straubenzee , one of Sarah 's old boyfriends , and ironed the shirts of Rory Scott , who had then starred in a television documentary about Trooping the Colour , and Diana regularly stayed for weekends at his parents ' farm near Petworth , West Sussex .
20 So she sipped champagne , and smiled , and ate , and all the while her fury against Naylor simmered away .
21 So she watched television and erm Princess Diana erm said something shocking at lunchtime at a luncheon party or lunch party and erm maybe just erm ten days before that Princess Diana 's announcement we were told by the Register Teacher that we will have an assignment of in February and we will compare some newspapers articles and maybe she did n't explain very erm specifically but she just gave us erm the brief information about er register assignment in February and she told us that we should er we should collect some newspapers about the same title was about the same topic and ho we should compare how each newspaper treated , treats the er news or what do you call that ?
22 But if I just she said lawn so I knew what it said .
23 Sulkily she added milk and buttered a croissant .
24 From the earth bank outside she looked north ; soon she saw the bulkily-furred figures of Morthen and three of the hunters ; they followed the edge of the wood , round to the south , and were soon lost to sight .
25 Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings .
26 Desperately she used logic to deny the miracle that had transformed her .
27 Soon she felt Water Gypsy get under way once more .
28 Then slowly she lifted head and looked at Matilda .
29 Delicately and discreetly she parted flesh from bone .
30 Luckily she had proof , because she did n't think it was going to take long before he took steps to make it seem as if she 'd made a criminally stupid error .
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