Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she felt like weeping . |
| 2 | Suddenly she burst into laughter , her arthritic hands waving in the air . |
| 3 | Suddenly her line tightened , so suddenly she squeaked with surprise . |
| 4 | Perhaps she went in secret with the good-looking , but rather boring Italian sculptor Alfredo Pina . |
| 5 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 6 | So she began with praise : — the more I think on it Ellen the more beholden I am to you for how you have cared for Oreste and the more fortunate . |
| 7 | She had , at first , absolutely no hope of consent , and for a week or so she tossed in bed at night preparing to brace her spirit against the inevitable refusal . |
| 8 | So she thought about Baby , not sad thoughts but ordinary ones . |
| 9 | So she nodded in agreement , but he did n't release her wrist . |
| 10 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 11 | At one o'clock she went to lunch feeling more confident about her long-term prospects with the firm . |
| 12 | Then while I was away she went on holiday straight after . |
| 13 | Soon she came into view followed by a very large young man who looked even larger striding at the side of the diminutive receptionist . |
| 14 | An intolerable weight seemed to press on her forehead and slowly she slid into sleep . |
| 15 | Yet still she asked for news of the Emma Bates . |
| 16 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 17 | But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation … |
| 18 | On the tube home she felt like crying , not because she had left , but for Sharon and Maria , not to say Michael . |
| 19 | I mean he fancied having a day off to the anniversary of them dying , she had a day off then like she did at Christmas |
| 20 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 21 | The experience left her physically and emotionally drained and a few months later she returned to hospital for a hysterectomy . |
| 22 | A little later she lay in bed beside her snoring husband , staring into the darkness . |
| 23 | Six months later she went to prison as a suffragette , having lied about her age and enrolled as a militant . |
| 24 | Twenty minutes later she stood in front of the mirror wearing the fragile lace undies which were also the result of her impulse-buying . |
| 25 | Seconds later she stumbled in thought the airlock , gasping for breath , her costume ripped , her hands and face grimy and blood smeared . |
| 26 | Later she worked on merchandising and public relations for Estée Lauder in England for ten years . |
| 27 | Now she left with plastic bags full of washing and returned after lunch the next day with Hugh 's shirts , Molly 's dresses and the children 's T-shirts and jeans beautifully ironed . |
| 28 | The image vanished , but for several minutes now she sat in shock . |
| 29 | However , it was n't often she had to fork out the coppers when pushing the hand cart through The Courts . |
| 30 | Well she worked at Brewery I think she did labelling you know in in department . |