Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Gingerly she took a sip of the soup , surprised to find it was not only delicious but nothing to do with any can or packet . |
2 | Suddenly she jangled a set of car keys in front of my face . |
3 | Suddenly she saw a man 's face in the light of a fire . |
4 | Suddenly she had a need to speak his name . |
5 | She was moving towards him , fascinated , when suddenly she felt a clutch on her arm laurels towards the orchard . |
6 | Suddenly she felt a jolt and her body was submerged underneath the mud . |
7 | For a moment his face rose before her — the deep , thoughtful eyes , the firm mouth — and suddenly she felt a surge of longing . |
8 | Suddenly she heard a voice , and she stopped crying to listen . |
9 | Suddenly she heard a car engine in the drive . |
10 | Then suddenly she heard a car sweep into the yard , and , getting up from her desk , she felt her heart leap uncomfortably once more as she saw Robert getting out of his Land Rover . |
11 | She had now stationed herself directly behind Rupert , and suddenly she extended a hand the size of a tennis racquet and grabbed all the hair on Rupert 's head in her fist . |
12 | Suddenly she noticed a movement behind a tree near the wall . |
13 | If only she had a comb and some make-up . |
14 | Perhaps she made a sound or some small movement , or maybe it was just the intensity of her gaze — whatever , she suddenly found those silvery-green eyes looking straight into hers . |
15 | Or perhaps she took a swig of sherry . |
16 | Perhaps she has a point . |
17 | Also , the piece speaks to our fears and insecurities , but in order to do so she uses an apposition between previous understandings , and contemporary questioning , which lends credence to modernist philosophic attitudes when her purpose is to challenge . |
18 | So even if you did n't have a protractor , I mean if you wanted to be really fussy and find out exactly you could measure it and say , ooh that 's actually , it 's not eighty that 's seventy nine and this is a hundred and one so she spends a pound and a penny on sweets and she saves seventy nine . |
19 | So she transforms a pair of rubber gloves or some rusty nails into eloquent allegories , or simply into new , surprising forms . |
20 | so she does a lot of flower arrangements and that privately |
21 | Come into work I think it 's assumed she 'd left but she did n't leave , she di she had enough of it so she had a couple of days off come in this morning and er I said to Steven , no idea what the situation was . |
22 | so she had a bit of a benny it was |
23 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
24 | So she had a list of about five things she wanted sorted out and she said so far we were the cheapest . |
25 | But like , wi with the door Dave 's mum 's sister was rubbing it in to try and say to his nan that we were kicking her out and so she got a bit funny over it ! |
26 | So she got a month ? |
27 | So she took a break from the family business and learnt to fly . |
28 | So she sent a letter home and my dad said , ‘ Yes , well , you 'd better not do it any more ’ . |
29 | Joan Gibbs says she really wanted a racehorse but could n't afford it and so she bought a greyhound and that 's the next best thing … it 's something of yours |
30 | A statement that the buildings in Old Aberdeen are beautiful is embedded within an assertion that the speaker was recently in Old Aberdeen , and stayed there for a period , and so she has a warrant for making the statement . |