Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she watched them she planned how to deal with Oliver . |
| 2 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 4 | She became informally imprisoned in the family maisonette , unable to cope with cooking , visitors , or any kind of isolation . |
| 5 | She was irritated with herself for thinking like a spy , for slipping into Urquhart 's world of suspicion and conspiracy , and as she became more irritated with herself , she became sharp with her companion . |
| 6 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 7 | After a short pause to watch us , she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries . |
| 8 | There was a long silence during which she tried desperately to think of some further topic of conversation — just to keep him here a little longer . |
| 9 | As she hurried upstairs to the bedroom , which still seemed to hold Leo 's presence , she tried not to indulge in daydreams that would in all probability prove to be no more substantial than the rainbows she 'd witnessed earlier . |
| 10 | She tried not to dwell on why it was that she had n't . |
| 11 | But she came to the kitchen when summoned to help , and she tried not to grumble at the repetitive nature of the work and the talk . |
| 12 | She tried not to listen to Mr Skinner . |
| 13 | She tried not to lie to the child , as she had been lied to . |
| 14 | She tried not to interfere in her children 's lives . |
| 15 | She tried not to smile at the wording , and then she handed it back . |
| 16 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 17 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 18 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 19 | She tried not to look at him as he talked . |
| 20 | She tried not to think about Andrew , but Oswin knew what was passing through her mind . |
| 21 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 22 | Just one little thing bothered her , though she tried not to think about it . |
| 23 | She tried not to think of her overdrawn bank account and the credit cards she must n't use . |
| 24 | Every now and then Nora took such opportunities to remind Sarah of her fortune ; she tried not to think of it as a kind of hudsoning . |
| 25 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 26 | At first she tried not to stare at him , knowing how the feeling of someone looking over her own shoulder made her clumsy , but soon it became clear that he was no longer aware of her at all . |
| 27 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 28 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 29 | Lesley was a devoted family girl , but at 22 she moved off to live at Warrington , 15 miles away . |
| 30 | She used ter sit in the Kings Arms on the comer o' Page Street shellin' 'er peas in the summer an' puffin' away at that clay pipe of 'ers . |