Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold . |
2 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |
3 | While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters . |
4 | All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed . |
5 | Perhaps she sought some prolongation of that feeling of joy and unity and excitement , the festival holiday feeling , the warm inclusion , yes , even being embraced by those formidable satiny bosoms and kissing the soft powdery cheeks of the old women , had made her feel part of it all . |
6 | Perhaps she needed this interlude only as the lover needs a rest from loving . |
7 | So she murmured soothing words and patted Eleanor 's shoulder until , little by little , the rocking and moaning subsided like the vibration of a spring coming to rest . |
8 | So she said seven days but she was right because she said twenty eight days . |
9 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |
10 | So she had great fun making them . |
11 | So she took some tea and some bread-and-butter while she thought about it . |
12 | And that 's fifty P off cos over sixty , I said I 'm over sixty so she knocked fifty P off . |
13 | When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor . |
14 | Inside she heard frantic barking . |
15 | Finally she made some grunts and said : ‘ Globol obol ookle ogle globol gloogle gloo . ’ ) |
16 | Thus she monitored many clients whose situation was felt to be unstable , and she negotiated widely for other services . |
17 | Karen limned it in , surprised at how easily she added lurid details . |
18 | Tonight she had other plans . |
19 | Anyway she left twelve pence on the floor and Gary says whose is this money , said you leave it there , it 's for Enid 's no nobody touch this chuffing twelve pence . |
20 | because Shirley seems to have been looking after , anyway she married this Robert |
21 | Meanwhile she had many friends who took up her cause : memorial concerts were given in Prague and Vienna ; she received a gratuity from the Elector of Cologne ; and the King of Prussia offered to purchase several compositions for 100 ducats each ( including the Requiem which Constanze made sure was ‘ completed ’ by Süssmayr so that she could collect the last instalment of money due from Count Walsegg ) . |
22 | Unconsciously she slid one hand up his back to twist her fingers in the jet-black hair brushing the collar of his jacket . |
23 | She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life . |
24 | But then that holiday was a bit unusual because she was n't well all the time we were there really not properly she had that virus that was mm |
25 | Nervously she licked dry lips and , into what seemed a sudden stillness , heard him catch his breath . |
26 | Eventually she took some goods her husband had left at her lodgings to the Police Station . |
27 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
28 | Eventually she found other things to do when , in his view , it was time to do that . |
29 | ‘ Personally , I 'd rather she showed more interest in her career . ’ |
30 | Still she felt that breeze ruffling her hair , biting at her nose . |