Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the theme has been decided , she goes away and prepares a design . |
| 2 | She turns away and lays a gentle finger on Rainbow 's still trembling cheek . |
| 3 | He picked up her blanket , spread it over her trembling body , his long fingers brushing her naked throat as she quivered angrily and snatched at the blanket , glaring at him . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't give a tinker 's toot what your mummy thinks ! ’ the Trunchbull yelled , and with that she lunged forward and grabbed hold of Amanda 's pig-tails in her right fist and lifted the girl clear off the ground . |
| 5 | She lunged forward and snatched the soap from me . |
| 6 | With an involuntary yell of alarm she tumbled forward and sprawled full length in the muddy water . |
| 7 | She fought tenaciously and managed to get herself free . |
| 8 | She sits there and answers the telephone basically . |
| 9 | She sits there and does them twice as fast as me . |
| 10 | She crept forward and reached out a hand with no digital weaponry on the fingers ; though even her naked fingers could kill . |
| 11 | But when she got outside and began to rearrange her belongings to fit more neatly in the bicycle basket , Elisabeth Danziger found a bar of fleur-de-lis soap and a cube of rose geranium bath crystals in her hand . |
| 12 | There were rainbow clumps of raw colour which sizzled and suddenly coiled into snakelike forms as she approached and lifted serpentine heads to hiss at her ; there were pouring cascades of things that had appeared to be silk or velvet , but which were molten gold when she got nearer and made her remember Fael-Inis and the cascading River and the salamanders . |
| 13 | Except that she would n't have known , not until she got there and smelled the blood . |
| 14 | It was after six when she got home and started clearing up the detritus of lunch . |
| 15 | It was only when she got home and looked in the hall mirror that she saw the enormous dark red love bite on her neck . |
| 16 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 17 | Over the next few hours , she thought she was succeeding in calming herself , but the superficial serenity proved fragile , shattering when she got home and found Luke comfortably ensconced in her lounge with a newspaper and some overtly erotic instrumental music playing softly in the background . |
| 18 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 19 | Ben waved to the child , and when she approached them she exclaimed loudly while looking at Aggie , ‘ Oh , you are dressed ! |
| 20 | Suddenly , she bent forward and kissed them one after the other . |
| 21 | She bent double and stayed that way , and her brown hair hung down , and her little fingertips touched the ground . |
| 22 | He took a step towards her , and she bent swiftly and snatched up a stone from the flowerbed beside her . |
| 23 | The pity of it all , she mused sadly and lay back on the rug and blinked up at the darkening sky above her . |
| 24 | When the ‘ meaning ’ theist believes , he or she lives within and reacts to the same world as the unbeliever . |
| 25 | She rose obediently and followed him into the small counselling-room across the corridor from the nurses ' station , relieved to remember that Deana Davenport had the day off today . |
| 26 | On seeing the car , she rose immediately and came tripping down the drive to unlock the tall iron gates . |
| 27 | She rose restlessly and moved to the door . |
| 28 | As soon as Schmidt settled , she rose again and walked to and fro in the room pecking at her cigarette . |
| 29 | Restlessly , she rose again and continued on around the house , following a cool stone path that seemed to be sloping down through the lush growth of shrubs and trees . |
| 30 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |