Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 2 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 3 | She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter . |
| 4 | ‘ Butterfield 8 ’ she read out in a clear , schoolmarm voice . |
| 5 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 6 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 8 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 9 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 10 | She slouched back to the living room . |
| 11 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 12 | The ones which could not be changed , or were too important to be missed , she shared out with the others and put a schedule on their desks . |
| 13 | Results of liver function tests remained entirely normal despite the delay in presentation , and she recovered rapidly with no sign of hepatocellular damage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage . |
| 16 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 17 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 18 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 19 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 20 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 22 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 23 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 24 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 25 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 26 | With a passion , she realised now as every defence she had ever had fell away from her , and she felt the hatred swing round to reveal the love , deep and very passionate indeed . |
| 27 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |
| 28 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 29 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 30 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |