Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | His mouth found her parted lips with a sudden impatient roughness , and even in her drowning state of mindless arousal she thought she detected a flicker of surprise in his eyes as he felt her shudder against him . |
2 | A shaft of disgust she thought she had long since escaped . |
3 | In the spring she said she wanted to go to the sea , to a warmer place . |
4 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
5 | Watching her reflection in the viewport she knew she 'd failed . |
6 | ‘ Yesterday Margrida was saying that when she saw us together at the lunch she felt we shared an affinity , ’ Ashley recalled . |
7 | She could keep three in the air at once , a skill she said she taught herself after she was taken once , as a child , to the circus . |
8 | As Diana prepared for battle she knew she needed a strategy . |
9 | For just a second she thought she saw a flicker of admiration in his eyes , but it was gone in a flash , leaving her to wonder if she 'd simply imagined the look . |
10 | The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam . |
11 | Just for a second she thought she detected a wary note in his voice . |
12 | He was sitting in the deckchair Candy had vacated by the time she returned , and for a second she thought he had fallen asleep , his head tilted back against the wooden spar of the chair , his eyes closed , their long black lashes casting shadows on his cheeks . |
13 | One silhouette she thought she recognized as Pascoe 's . |
14 | In that mood she said she had been present at a lot of attacks that had occurred on Ward 4 . |
15 | When she turned up at Buckingham University in her newly ennobled capacity she showed nothing had changed . |
16 | There were no doors in the walls , but she could tell from the noise that the building she thought she had come out of was a pub . |
17 | It took a little under an hour , and when , at his instruction , she pulled up outside a small , dark cottage she thought she felt sick . |
18 | Travis must have discovered her disappearance by now , and with a sinking heart she realised she had n't put nearly enough distance between them for safety . |
19 | Love for her sister won , as in her heart she supposed she 'd known that it would . |
20 | By late afternoon she realised he had no intention of returning to the office while she was in it , and she had a strong suspicion that he did not trust her . |
21 | And yet for a moment in the kitchen she thought she 'd caught a fleeting expression almost of smugness on his face , as though something had pleased him . |
22 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
23 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
24 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
25 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
26 | She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned . |
27 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
28 | For a moment she thought she had really seen this happening and that Simon had drowned . |
29 | For a moment she thought she knew him . |
30 | For a moment she thought she glimpsed a hint of self-mockery soften the hardness of his eyes , then it was gone . |