Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 2 | But her consultant was n't too keen on the idea and she eventually settled for a domino birth . |
| 3 | What a shame that we did n't — or could n't — see more of the role that the Queen actively plays in British politics in the television portrait filmed to mark her 40 years in what she memorably described as a ‘ job for life ’ . |
| 4 | She suddenly felt in a great hurry to escape , instinctively disliking this pretty , richly-dressed young American . |
| 5 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |
| 7 | She only stayed for a few months , then she became unwell and had to give up the job . |
| 8 | No she only stayed for a few weeks in Summer |
| 9 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 10 | She finally came to a halt at the very far end of the garden . |
| 11 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe my future , ’ she finally answered with a shudder . |
| 13 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 14 | Well , she just asked about a bed , so I told her that we were |
| 15 | Well she just asked about a bed so I told her that |
| 16 | she coul , I mean she just looked like a Michelin man , as though somebody pumped her up with a |
| 17 | Rose 's mouth dropped open and she just managed to a catch a string of saliva on the back of her wrist before anybody noticed . |
| 18 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 19 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |
| 20 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 21 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 22 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 23 | The photograph she always used as a bookmark fluttered out of it . |
| 24 | She usually arrived about a quarter to nine , greeted her colleague , read her correspondence , and was then prepared to face the assembled school . |
| 25 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 26 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |
| 27 | And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) . |
| 28 | She still looked like a child . |
| 29 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 30 | She habitually moved in a kind of nautical crawl , with her stomach close to the deck , as though close-furled and ready for dirty weather . |