Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubled up in pain , and rested her forehead on the carpeted floor . |
| 2 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 3 | She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself . |
| 4 | She hoots and is about to say something , but she holds off in front of Darius and squints at me to see what I mean . |
| 5 | And I get it green for when she stands up in class . |
| 6 | She squats down in front of me and puts her elbows on my knees . |
| 7 | For some reason , he disliked it when she behaved badly in front of Marjorie . |
| 8 | She moved away in front of them . |
| 9 | With another little smile , she moved away in search of her future , if temporary guide . |
| 10 | In passing she mentions that she has sometimes in despair hit her children . |
| 11 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 12 | She sank back in despair . |
| 13 | She starts off in chicken stuffer 's uniform as seen in Letter To Brezhnev and ends up in designer punk bondage dress and boxing boots . |
| 14 | She charged off in search of her mother . |
| 15 | ‘ Strange how often she crops up in conversation . |
| 16 | ‘ They seem to think I should stand on my own two feet — which is only right and proper , ’ she added hastily in case he should think she was whingeing . |
| 17 | She woke up in bed with a man with a red beard , but from the snide remarks and sideways looks of those fellow guests who were still there in the morning gathered that he had not been her only partner of the night . |
| 18 | At school lunches she showed none of this nonsense , nor was it displayed at home when she ate informally in front of the television in the evening . |
| 19 | ‘ Thyme for the kidneys , ’ she announce nervously in excuse . |
| 20 | She came up in front of my parents and said : ‘ Would you like to take this home , put a sample in it and we 'll do a sperm count for you ? ’ |
| 21 | She came home in despair and went back to the clinic to work rather than spend the Sunday alone , or try to pass the time with friends . |
| 22 | His fingers touched hers and his heart gave a jolt , but she seemed perfectly in command of herself and had apparently felt nothing , so he told himself not to be a dope , and carried his coffee back to the chesterfield . |
| 23 | Then she poured out in detail the humiliation she had recently suffered , and at last she sighed deeply and said , ‘ You 've caught me at my weakest , but I 'm gradually pulling myself together . ’ |
| 24 | She is indeed a transcendent figment of the creative literary imagination : According to Janette Richardson ( 1970 ) , Alison escapes any punishment in the tale because she acts purely in accordance with " nature " . |
| 25 | She turned away in confusion and started to pack a small case . |
| 26 | But ‘ belong ’ — she is fearful that for her at least the word may explode , may vanish in a puff of smoke as delicate as the smoke that trickles from Fenna 's nostrils when he is asleep ; as delicate as the fronds of smoke that drift mysteriously from the end of Phoebe 's cigarette when she gestures impatiently in conversation . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's very beautiful here , ’ she commented over-brightly in compensation . |
| 28 | There had seemed , in the carriage ride from Bodmin , to be no snow in Cornwall , and the air when she stepped out in front of Aunt Emily 's door had a faint , sharp tang of salt , a whiff of the sea . |
| 29 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 30 | Just that I think Susanna wants to spanner to work , her bike 's not here otherwise I 'd have if she gets back in time , fair enough . |