Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 2 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 3 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 4 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 5 | She sits squarely in a revolving chair , eyes unblinking . |
| 6 | She laughs quietly in the darkness . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables ? ’ she asked excitedly in a high , sweet voice . |
| 8 | She lives here in the village , at the other end . |
| 9 | and she lives like in a warden controlled place the same as your gran and granddad |
| 10 | She stands almost in the corner , her feet awkwardly placed , her hands clasped tightly , not folded in resignation as is usual with Modigliani paintings . |
| 11 | Even though she moved freely in a world that had its dark and sordid side , she had stayed clean , too innately fastidious to be even faintly tempted . |
| 12 | She lies there in the dark , with her eyes open , keeping watch . |
| 13 | PRINCESS Diana will spend this Christmas wracked with heartache , separated from everyone she loves best in the world . |
| 14 | What I liked about her was that she charged less in the 6ds than she did in the 1/3s : she had a sliding scale . |
| 15 | I rang them , ’ she added lamely in the face of his indifference . |
| 16 | When she arrives home in the evening , she knows she will have no stimulating exchange of news to look forward to with a husband and family . |
| 17 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 18 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 19 | She scorned the ‘ literary ’ but still believed in the literature she admires here in the work of Christina Stead , Louise Erdich , and in the best discussion of Jane Eyre you will ever read . |
| 20 | She turned slowly in the middle of the living room , like a gyrating parakeet . |
| 21 | She nodded vaguely in the direction of number five . |
| 22 | ‘ Naylor ! ’ she sighed again in the utmost rapture , and , clutching him , had not the smallest demur to make when he removed her bra and began to caress the swollen mounds of her pink-tipped breasts . |
| 23 | She arrived promptly in the Green Drawing Room for pre-lunch drinks and then found herself seated next to Prince Andrew , who was on leave from his Royal Navy flying duties . |
| 24 | He reviewed the situation as he gazed unseeingly out of the rain-lashed windows , at the huge bows of Titron , as she wallowed helplessly in the heaving seas . |
| 25 | This does n't stop them lightening up later , as she sprawls offstage in a celebratory show of crowd-surfing . |
| 26 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't like the look of her , ’ she remarked loudly in the hall , forgetting that despite her other failings Miss Trimm 's hearing had sharpened with age . |
| 28 | As she walked home in the dark , she thought to herself , ‘ Why is there always a catch to it ? |
| 29 | When Bernard was there , they walked together , and discussed every aspect of the business but , more often , she walked alone in the Welsh hills refining and reiterating silently her philosophy of life . |
| 30 | She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other . |