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

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1 Apparently she regularly dispensed medicines to ‘ those not in acute distempers ’ among her ‘ own sex and little children ’ .
2 Perhaps she even got Grandma thinking the same , not realizing that Grandma was a person who needed the near-replica of her childhood to make a background for her life ; and that although she gave , she also received .
3 Furthermore she also reserved rights over tin and lead .
4 Somehow she again made contact with the young man .
5 well she thought it was a bit peculiar then , luckily she either got Mr or
6 As she grew up she often visited relations in Ireland and she developed a lifelong romantic passion for that country , originating in her childhood adoration of Burgage .
7 Now she agitatedly trimmed lamb chops , paring away the hard , white fat for Uncle Philip could not abide grease , glancing now and then at Melanie and opening and closing her mouth in a distressing , uncertain way .
8 ‘ Can you imagine how she ever conceived Syl ? ’
9 Then she vaguely remembered fitzAlan saying something about circling around to approach Winchester from the north in case of pursuit .
10 Reluctantly , but then she still loved Anna , although she had begun to judge her .
11 Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait .
12 Then she deliberately held Ronni 's eyes for a moment .
13 She was no raving beauty , she thought wryly , but at least she now looked human .
14 At least she only robbed bins and doorsteps , she did n't shoplift .
15 There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama .
16 Then she went and spoiled everything by behaving as if pissed , lurching backwards and forwards till she ended up hanging upside down from my finger , gripping so tightly she almost drew blood .
17 Her relaxed manner was the reason , Dexter had concluded , why she often coaxed answers to some of the most prickly questions .
18 ELANA MEYER won the battle between South Africa 's two top middle distance runners when she comfortably beat Zola Pieterse over 3,000 metres at a meeting in Stellenbosch yesterday .
19 Another undated scrap about Ivy must date from about this time , when she still invited people to luncheon :
20 However she never lost control , giving polite but non-committal answers to endless questions about her feelings for the Prince .
21 Edwards records that she won converts in Stepney , where she also locked horns with the moderate Independent minister William Greenhill [ q.v . ] .
22 ‘ There 's the Humming Bird , ’ said Ianthe , naming the cafe where she sometimes had lunch .
23 In imagination Mrs. Pridmore followed her daughter as she pedalled vigorously on her way ; bumping down the rough farm track between Mr. Bowlem 's flat fields to Tenpenny Road , past old Mrs. Button 's cottage where , as a child , she had been given rice-cake and home-made lemonade , by Tenpenny Dyke where she still picked cowslips in summer , then a right turn into Chevisham Road and the straight two miles skirting Captain Massey 's land and into Chevisham village .
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