Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you order the bourbon and water , sir ? ’ she politely asked the empty high-backed chair in the living-room . |
| 2 | She nervously dipped the top half of her body forward in a half-hearted curtsey . |
| 3 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 4 | But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp . |
| 5 | She eventually carried the Welsh language with her , later in life , to the clannish Welsh community that developed around the Great Western Railway works in Swindon . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I need the work , Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , her eyes twinkling as she gently raised the old lady a little and placed an extra pillow at her back . |
| 7 | Instead of squirming about helplessly as intended , she gently caressed the strange hand with her own . |
| 8 | As she eagerly scanned the blank faces turned like sunflowers towards us , I felt almost faint for a moment , overwhelmed by her excitement and my own desire . |
| 9 | Then one evening after Pack Meeting , when she was folding up her uniform to put it away , she suddenly noticed the Six emblem on it . |
| 10 | Then she suddenly got the wild idea that you might have taken it to attack Alain . |
| 11 | Behind her Rose followed her at a wheezing trot , keeping up with her , until she suddenly mastered the antiquated machine , and sped away , feeling like a Swiss mountaineer with his St Bernard dog , setting off on his errand of mercy . |
| 12 | She stood motionless , wondering what he was about to do , and as he moved closer she suddenly had the ridiculous impression he was going to kiss her . |
| 13 | Melissa gave a mischievous grimace as she suddenly remembered the disapproving gleam in her friend 's eye on learning where she was spending the evening and , possibly , the night . |
| 14 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 15 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |
| 16 | One of the shawled women must have seen Sharpe and Doggett approaching for she suddenly called the small girl who ran nervously towards the thatched cottage . |
| 17 | I thought how , how can I swear an oath to god in all honestly if I 'm not sure there is one , I thought yeah blimming right , I mean , she would n't just take , say it so she obviously said , she obviously said the right theories |
| 18 | Although she obviously enjoys the physical stuff , he would like her to bring some spiritual qualities to the performance . |
| 19 | And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own . |
| 20 | Pouting seductively , she assumed a pose which presented her as a raving sexpot , as she alluringly slipped the flimsy straps of her silk and lace petticoat from her ivory shoulders . |
| 21 | It did n't frighten her ; she merely disliked the physical act of getting on a plane and sitting there for the duration of the journey . |
| 22 | She thoughtfully left the two letters on his desk , where his older brother discovered them . |
| 23 | But even she only reached the 2nd round , before losing to Larisa Savchenko . |
| 24 | At first she only saw the dark shape of the forest beside the road , then as her eyes adjusted to a faint lifting of the gloom a narrow laneway appeared between the trees . |
| 25 | She only had the one dress , and a cloak , both worn and thin . |
| 26 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 27 | mother and she only had the one daughter and the daughter got married and oh she had about oh ten or eleven children and they 're all running round in this back yard |
| 28 | she only had the bloody cheek to charge us last year for a turkey wrong , but I mean I did get that sorted out afterwards . |
| 29 | No , she only had the three children , erm Asthana was n't born . |
| 30 | Allen 's attitude is playfully anarchic ; with a childlike spirit she gleefully undermines the serious , ‘ male ’ pose of the sculptor by knitting socks for her concrete sculpture , or producing what even she describes as ‘ grotesque object ’ . |