Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 2 | Timidly she tacked on another question that bothered her . |
| 3 | ‘ They found this girl … ’ was all she said at first . |
| 4 | So she scored on that line . |
| 5 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 6 | So she laughed at that , see . |
| 7 | So she opted for desperate measures to get him to change his image . |
| 8 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
| 9 | So she went like this pulled our her note card and said I can put it on now she said . |
| 10 | And so she rose at six and bathed , tapped on Lucy 's door at seven , to a clear ringing ‘ Come in ! ’ |
| 11 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 13 | Downstairs she stepped past two sleeping bodies in the living room and closed the front door quietly behind her . |
| 14 | Eventually she plumped for Persian help , but at a time ( 412 ) when her potential critics inside the league were less effective ( cp. p. 97 on Corinth ) . |
| 15 | It was mid-evening , therefore , but still light , when eventually she arrived in Lower Axe . |
| 16 | Eventually she settled on one property at the junction of the Lambeth and Kennington roads , where she built ‘ model dwellings for working folk ’ and maintained an office , home , and headquarters until her death thirty years later , never marrying but working constantly with her sisters Ellen and Eliza on local improvement schemes . |
| 17 | Yesterday she went to several of her neighbours ' houses to ask if anyone had seen the incident or knew who was behind it . |
| 18 | The more she thought about this , the more uncertain she became . |
| 19 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 20 | She always gets to do the music because you know , like she did at that er |
| 21 | Quickly she put on lacy underwear and pulled her best dress from the wardrobe , a cocktail-length skirt of full , flame-coloured taffeta topped by a portrait-necked bodice of black velvet . |
| 22 | Later she worked in public relations on an island playground for Scotland 's hunting and fishing set . |
| 23 | Inwardly she longed for some sparkling revenge . |
| 24 | To warm herself up she lay in hot water up to her chin , her hair tied up on top of her head , consoling herself with the fact that physically she was almost back to normal . |
| 25 | When they stood up she thought with ill-humoured relief that Nicole was about to step into her car and drive away , but Piers turned to her and said in a flat voice , ‘ I 'll see you later . |
| 26 | When the tea was over Maggie brought out two deck chairs from the summer house and after putting them up she pointed to one , saying , ‘ Make yourself comfortable , I 'm going to help Aunt clear up . |
| 27 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 28 | Now she knew beyond any doubt that they were going to spend the rest of the evening together . |
| 29 | It had seemed right in that split second ; now she wished with all her heart that she had n't done it . |
| 30 | Well she went on sick leave for a long time |