Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
| 2 | ‘ In the name of our love , forgive me ! ’ she whispered with a dry mouth . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've done it , ’ she whispered into the little cave made by her fingers . |
| 4 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
| 5 | ‘ Barney darling , ’ she whispered in a soft mid Atlantic accent , ‘ how lovely to see you again . |
| 6 | ‘ What have you done now , Jim ? ’ she whispered in a shaking voice . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , look ! ’ she whispered in an awed kind of voice , and flicked a glance from the squirrel to Ven , to find that he was looking — at her ! |
| 8 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 9 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 10 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
| 11 | ‘ No , it is n't , ’ she admitted with a self-deprecatory smile , glad to keep the conversation impersonal . |
| 12 | ‘ The former , ’ she admitted with a wry little smile . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted with no clear idea whether it was or was n't . |
| 14 | ‘ I — I 'm afraid so , ’ she admitted in a small voice . |
| 15 | she admitted in a low voice . |
| 16 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 17 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 18 | ‘ The TV crew on The Darling Buds Of May know that I hate my backside , so they 're always making little comments , ’ she revealed in an exclusive interview . |
| 19 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 20 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
| 21 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 22 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 23 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 24 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 25 | But the fumes seeped in until she was forced to gulp for air and she plunged into a deep and haunted sleep . |
| 26 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 27 | An inclination which she shared with every other girl in the school , but her own particular choice was a hymn by J. M. Neale , the first verse of which ran : |
| 28 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
| 29 | While she shared in the bride-to-be 's euphoria , as the wife of the Queen 's assistant private secretary , she could n't help but be concerned about how Diana would cope with royal life . |
| 30 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |