Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 2 | Satisfied with the merest hint of make-up she had used on her heart-shaped face , she emptied out the small jewellery sachet she always took with her on her travels . |
| 3 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 4 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |
| 5 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 6 | She fought back the sudden urge to run to him , to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness . |
| 7 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 8 | She sought out the darkest room and even then closed the shutters , though it was only early morning , and lay on her bed without energy even to feed her son . |
| 9 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 10 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 11 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 12 | She straightened out the dead woman , folded her hands and tidied the bed . |
| 13 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 14 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 15 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 16 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 17 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 18 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 19 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 20 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 21 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 22 | She gulped down the proffered glass of Coca-Cola quickly . |
| 23 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |
| 24 | After the stale fug in the tiny cabin , she gulped down the clean sea air , the car window wide open . |
| 25 | She lifted down the big suitcase from the top of the wardrobe , and , placing it on the bed , began to fill it , folding the garments as carefully as Isabelle would have done . |
| 26 | She lifted out the illuminated psalter within and handed it to him . |
| 27 | She drove down the wide west London avenue . |
| 28 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 29 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 30 | When she came back the next day the stripes had been dyed her natural brunette , but badly , so that her hair still seemed striped , hence her nickname , Bunte . |