Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sperber and Wilson 's ( 1986 ) principle of relevance entitles the hearer to expect adequate contextual effects for the minimum necessary processing effort.5 This means that a speaker who is asked to say what , for example , was said in a lecture would not satisfy the principle of relevance if he or she read out the entire content word for word . |
| 2 | Satisfied with the merest hint of make-up she had used on her heart-shaped face , she emptied out the small jewellery sachet she always took with her on her travels . |
| 3 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 4 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |
| 5 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 6 | She fought back the sudden urge to run to him , to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness . |
| 7 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 8 | She sought out the darkest room and even then closed the shutters , though it was only early morning , and lay on her bed without energy even to feed her son . |
| 9 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 10 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 11 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 12 | She straightened out the dead woman , folded her hands and tidied the bed . |
| 13 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 14 | In An Englishwoman ‘ s Work among Workingmen , 1875 she recounted how the dramatic language of evangelical religion enabled her to press her case : |
| 15 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 16 | She tried out the new offices , did not find them satisfactory and left claiming unfair dismissal . |
| 17 | She was n't going to let Dana provoke her ; she weighed exactly the same as her twin and always had . |
| 18 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 19 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 20 | She walked past him into the tiny hallway and picked up her bags , noticing with relief that he was n't around when she fled up the narrow wooden stairs to one of the three bedrooms , the one furthest away from his . |
| 21 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 22 | She crashed down the four steps , ending up in a heap on the landing . |
| 23 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 24 | She blanked out the sudden picture of white sands and her and Lucy in a scented olive-grove evening … her heart panted to slake its thirst with dreaming , but she slammed the scenes of happiness as illusion , mirage . |
| 25 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 26 | She did n't know how she 'd come by it , and she 'd only the vaguest memories of her journey to this place . |
| 27 | She gulped down the proffered glass of Coca-Cola quickly . |
| 28 | As she walked to the weighing room , she gulped down the three pills . |
| 29 | After the stale fug in the tiny cabin , she gulped down the clean sea air , the car window wide open . |
| 30 | She lifted down the big suitcase from the top of the wardrobe , and , placing it on the bed , began to fill it , folding the garments as carefully as Isabelle would have done . |