Example sentences of "and [adv] she [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And instinctively she reached out her arms as if to circle his neck and draw him down into an imaginary embrace . |
| 2 | ‘ Cool off , Ruth , ’ he ordered sharply and was about to slam out of the room when her speech came back in a rush and furiously she hit out with her pièce de résistance . |
| 3 | Suddenly she was aware of her cardigan being draped around her shoulders and slowly she looked up to see Nathan standing beside her . |
| 4 | The thought lit a spark of rebellion , and slowly she sat up , pushing tousled hair back from her tear-streaked face . |
| 5 | He moved again , and gladly she leaned over and pressed the bell on the wall beside the cot and got up to get the breast tray . |
| 6 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 7 | And so she looked up , she said , that is right she said , alright , and er he prescribed some more water pills . |
| 8 | And so she come in and that . |
| 9 | And so she come back here . |
| 10 | Rosa saw no one from her hideaway in the dark arch of their carriage door and so she stepped out into the gleaming street , which felt good and solid , under the warm soles of her feet ; her heart was thumping , but that too felt good . |
| 11 | And they put it on back to front and so she keeps on putting her watch on upside down , she goes and I was feeling dead sick and then it realised it was the stupid cow at the shop with |
| 12 | So she began , and so she went on . |
| 13 | And so she went out to school every morning , not to the threepenny one run by the Council , nor to the Church of England , but to the penny school run by the Methodists . |
| 14 | And so she settled down quietly into our family life for over a year , until one of the aunts , Aunt Kate , came to see us , and after that there was talk between our parents — children always know these things , having good ears — about it perhaps being best now for Grandma to be going back to her little house in Hampshire . |
| 15 | His kiss deepened , and unconsciously she arched up towards him , aching for his touch . |
| 16 | She continued to play until his hands came on her shoulders , and somehow she kept on playing until his hand lifted her loose hair behind the ear and his mouth came down and touched it . |
| 17 | Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor . |
| 18 | Back in bed , breakfast tray on her knees , slowly and attentively she poured out a cup of tea , the cuffs of her nightdress drooping over her hands . |
| 19 | The maid had cleared away , and now she came out with a jug of wine and two glasses . |
| 20 | Since her last cry of ‘ Do n't ! ’ she had not uttered a word , and now she went out of the dining room on James 's arm without once looking back at Alexandra . |
| 21 | Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda 's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up . |
| 22 | Maggie had been stewing meat , and now she rolled out pastry with a heavy glass roller like the one Mrs Martin had used in the Bradfords ' kitchen . |
| 23 | Robbie had woken with a start , and now she sat up , her heart pounding erratically . |
| 24 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 25 | She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade . |
| 26 | A quick dab of Youth Dew and then she sauntered over to join him . |
| 27 | And then she went over to the attack again . |
| 28 | And she teased her out and straightened her up a little , and then she went over to the makeup table and tore off a length of the soft toilet roll that she used instead of Kleenex , and then she sat on the floor beside Lucy and put her arm around her shoulders . |
| 29 | And then she went round again and we said well push so and so |
| 30 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |