Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She instinctively shrunk back against the wall , her hands clasped tightly against her chest .
2 He seemed to loom over her and she instinctively moved back in her chair with a jerk .
3 She rarely came out of Merchiston Lodge , except to go to the village , and it was quite a pleasure , she discovered , to be driving away from it .
4 Easy for him to say that , Merrill thought , as she thankfully sat down at her desk after he 'd left .
5 Constance felt let down but , more , she was overcome with indignant self-pity as she slowly cycled back along the drive that linked the Hall to the main road .
6 However , outwardly cool , calm and composed , and trying to use up as many minutes as possible , she slowly got out of her car and , just as slowly , moved to the stout front door of the imposing building .
7 She slowly looked round at him , her eyes wide with surprise and doubt , the wretched book forgotten .
8 She felt such a clown , standing before them with that vulgar object between her open legs , but she slowly sank down towards the disgusting dildo and manipulated her thighs until the blunt tip was nudging at the portals of her reluctant orifice .
9 She eventually got through to her in the early evening .
10 By the time she eventually got up to her room , she was out on her feet , and , if she were honest , not entirely sober .
11 She gently floated out of the hatch , trailing the rope behind her .
12 Then she swiftly went out of the house .
13 She suddenly looked up at him with a slight smile , very bitter .
14 Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation .
15 A sudden thought struck Katherine Lundy and she suddenly sat up in bed .
16 She suddenly smiled up at him .
17 And she suddenly turned back in the direction they had come and ran all the way , her wet shift slapping against her bare legs .
18 She naturally felt out of place in their chalet and accepted the invitation of Simon Berry , the son of a wealthy wine merchant , to join his chalet party .
19 She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous .
20 There seemed no point in justifying her mistake still further , so she merely sat down in silence and allowed Lyddy to place paper and ink and a pen before her , just as if she had summoned her all the way upstairs for that very purpose .
21 She only went out after dark , to walk in the woods and the fields .
22 Donna had re-attached the back door to its frame as well , while Julie mopped up the blood in the hallway — although she finally passed out during the task .
23 She was holding her breath when she finally got through to Tracey 's extension .
24 And she finally got in at quarter to and she 's , oh Kim said she was in a dreadful state .
25 The CAT scan apparently showed no damage to the brain , so it was something of a shock to the doctors as well as to Dawn 's parents when she finally came round from the coma after about a week with a left hemiplegia .
26 As the second show was coming to an end , Lucy sat herself in the makeup chair and made a sullen face and checked her watch frequently , with the idea that Josie should catch her doing it as she finally came in through the door .
27 The old boat , seen in our picture ( below ) with her cox'n Walter Fairbairn , saved over 60 lives , and was the last pulling and sailing lifeboat in Scotland when she finally went out of service in 1943 .
28 It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep .
29 Her eyes were almost closing when she finally drew up outside the villa .
30 When she finally drew in behind the charcoal BMW on the road to Drogheda , she brandished the plastic bag and gestured — lead me on !
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