Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the name of our love , forgive me ! ’ she whispered with a dry mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ Barney darling , ’ she whispered in a soft mid Atlantic accent , ‘ how lovely to see you again . |
| 3 | ‘ What have you done now , Jim ? ’ she whispered in a shaking voice . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
| 5 | ‘ No , it is n't , ’ she admitted with a self-deprecatory smile , glad to keep the conversation impersonal . |
| 6 | ‘ The former , ’ she admitted with a wry little smile . |
| 7 | ‘ I — I 'm afraid so , ’ she admitted in a small voice . |
| 8 | she admitted in a low voice . |
| 9 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 10 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 11 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 12 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 13 | But the fumes seeped in until she was forced to gulp for air and she plunged into a deep and haunted sleep . |
| 14 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 15 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
| 16 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
| 17 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
| 18 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
| 19 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
| 20 | You may remember seeing Katrina Hunter and the remarkable progress she made with a herbal cream from the borders . |
| 21 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 22 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 23 | She paid her bill and wandered back to where she had parked the car in a shady spot under an orange tree in a square — She did n't know a lot about Fernando Serra , she realised with a dull bumping of her heart . |
| 24 | No — it was n't fear of being alone she was experiencing , she realised with a hollow pang inside — it was something much more basic than that , but just as alien to her character . |
| 25 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 26 | Except , she realised with a sudden sense of shock , the ship was moving and she had n't even noticed until now . |
| 27 | But then he was n't likely to believe anything good about her , she realised with a sudden profound pang of sorrow . |
| 28 | SHe realised with a dreadful clench of the stomach that SHe was a morsel of raw flesh being thrown into a blood-spiced pool of hungry sharks . |
| 29 | She realised with a sinking heart that the longer her mother-in-law remained at the Manor , the more difficult it would be to dislodge her . |
| 30 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |