Example sentences of "[vb past] she [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 2 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 3 | ‘ We need to talk , ’ Guy informed her calmly in the morning , across the white table on the terrace . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 5 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 6 | Two days after the two men returned from Germany , the SS officer pulled her aside in the officers ' mess . |
| 7 | He watched her covertly in the mirror behind the bar . |
| 8 | I also guided her occasionally in the stock market : she shared these tips and the jaunts with her friend from around the corner , Mrs Warburton , who was also widowed . |
| 9 | The light from the hall spilled across the multi-coloured counterpane , and he laid her gently in the middle . |
| 10 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 11 | Mrs Bennett , large , matriarchal and down-to-earth , stared her straight in the face . |
| 12 | He looked her straight in the face . |
| 13 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 14 | He came and stood beside her , and looked her straight in the face . |
| 15 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 16 | He looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 17 | ‘ Joanna asked the farmer to ring me before they took her away in the ambulance . |
| 18 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 19 | Even when it was me that was in the wrong , you 'd always blame her … punish her … shut her away in the cellar or the attic . |
| 20 | Something struck her smartly in the middle of her shoulders and made her gasp . |
| 21 | Without any provocation or excuse , M. struck her violently in the face with a rolled up newspaper . |
| 22 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 23 | For Ellen Musialela , Acting Secretary for the SWAPO Women 's Council , this year it will be 21 years since she left her home in the Caprivi Strip to join SWAPO 's armed struggle for liberation . |
| 24 | Teng kicked her hard in the ribs , silencing her . |
| 25 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 26 | There was a silence while he eyed her smoulderingly in the light from the candles in the wall-sconces . |