Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gulped , unable to continue speaking as she fought to keep back the tears that were threatening to fall yet again . |
| 2 | She got to put down every day look there 's a sample for a week |
| 3 | She bent to plump up the cushions . |
| 4 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 5 | Despite all the contrary opinions expressed in the play , the underlying message was that it is the mother 's right to choose whether she wants to bring up a child who is mentally handicapped , and that other people simply do not understand how the mother feels . |
| 6 | ‘ She wants to pass on the message that the world is still a great place despite everything . |
| 7 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 8 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 9 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 10 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 11 | She tried to make out an expression on his creased face . |
| 12 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 13 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 14 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 15 | A YOUNG policewoman was fighting for life early today after being stabbed three times as she tried to break up an argument . |
| 16 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 17 | She moved to switch out the light , forgetting that it was not her lamp that glowed on the bedside table , but he caught her arm , oh-so-very-gently , this time . |
| 18 | She sees red , however , when the slogans and other aspects of her designs are copied and bowdlerised ; she has sounded off a great deal about suing the culprits , a litigious reflex often apparent in her career . |
| 19 | Defoe 's Roxana explains why she has turned down an offer of marriage from a Dutch merchant : ‘ … |
| 20 | This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess . |
| 21 | Later her brother unwittingly reinforced the impression that she hired and fired staff when he said : ‘ In a quiet way she has weeded out a lot of the hangers-on who surrounded Charles . ’ |
| 22 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 23 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |
| 24 | She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household . |
| 25 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 26 | This project has received much local support and she has set up a group of people who will organise it long term . |
| 27 | She wears her usual dull black leggings , and for the cool April evening she has put on a black woolly top . |
| 28 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 29 | Brittain says : ‘ She has put back the weight , is in tremendous form — and deserves a tilt at another classic . ’ |
| 30 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |