Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants just the plain white one ? |
| 2 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 3 | She was n't going to let Dana provoke her ; she weighed exactly the same as her twin and always had . |
| 4 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 5 | thought like she says so I just , you know , ignored her and she says then the next day she was out doing her windows and she shouted over to Dawn ah hello Dawn and Da Dawn just says hiya . |
| 6 | She did n't know how she 'd come by it , and she 'd only the vaguest memories of her journey to this place . |
| 7 | Had n't she felt precisely the same about her sister Pet ? |
| 8 | Lydia realised this afresh when she came downstairs the following morning . |
| 9 | Stella did n't ; she nodded just the same . |
| 10 | She stripped away the outer shell brick by brick , and massaged the essence of the structure , fashioning a gothic cathedral . |
| 11 | She hated even the slightest shadow to be cast over these few days . |
| 12 | She cut short the stumbling thanks and put down the phone . |
| 13 | It is a central theme throughout the book , and she criticises frequently the Catholic beliefs and customs . |
| 14 | She sniffed away the last of her tears and slipped the piece of dirty , rose-covered wallpaper into her carrier bag . |
| 15 | Urgent now , she pressed again the strong body , thrilling to the arms that held her clamped there . |
| 16 | Clara was not fully aware of Miss Haines ' interest , because it was hidden by a sharp and brisk demeanour , and by an almost excessive severity , so she worked all the harder in her efforts to impress . |
| 17 | She wore exactly the same clothes when she come to June . |
| 18 | Her senses are , of course , less acute than mine : if she feels even the slightest admonitory prickle on her nape , she misinterprets it as a spattering of raindrops , instead of a stranger 's gaze . |
| 19 | She looked much the same herself . |
| 20 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |
| 21 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 22 | She saw again the severed vessels , sticking like corrugated pipes through the clotted blood . |
| 23 | She saw in Rachel 's face three years of loss and loneliness ; she saw too the simpler anger that Rachel would never dare to express . |
| 24 | But as the days turned into weeks , she felt even the slight hold she had on him slipping . |
| 25 | She felt all the better for it . |
| 26 | And she remembered then the old adage tossed around the dinner table by her parents ' friends , when the drink had loosened their tongues , and things were said that stuck in the mind like grit in the eye . |
| 27 | There was such tenderness in his face as he studied the tears flowing down her cheeks that she cried all the harder . |
| 28 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 29 | Thankfully , she cleared away the horrid masks . |
| 30 | Franca dried the wound with the paper , feeling as she did so the blazing warmth of the bruised knee , which was already swelling a little . |