Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 2 | She was n't going to let Dana provoke her ; she weighed exactly the same as her twin and always had . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She did n't know how she 'd come by it , and she 'd only the vaguest memories of her journey to this place . |
| 5 | Lydia realised this afresh when she came downstairs the following morning . |
| 6 | Stella did n't ; she nodded just the same . |
| 7 | She stripped away the outer shell brick by brick , and massaged the essence of the structure , fashioning a gothic cathedral . |
| 8 | She hated even the slightest shadow to be cast over these few days . |
| 9 | She cut short the stumbling thanks and put down the phone . |
| 10 | She sniffed away the last of her tears and slipped the piece of dirty , rose-covered wallpaper into her carrier bag . |
| 11 | Urgent now , she pressed again the strong body , thrilling to the arms that held her clamped there . |
| 12 | Clara was not fully aware of Miss Haines ' interest , because it was hidden by a sharp and brisk demeanour , and by an almost excessive severity , so she worked all the harder in her efforts to impress . |
| 13 | She wore exactly the same clothes when she come to June . |
| 14 | She looked much the same herself . |
| 15 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |
| 16 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 17 | She saw again the severed vessels , sticking like corrugated pipes through the clotted blood . |
| 18 | She saw in Rachel 's face three years of loss and loneliness ; she saw too the simpler anger that Rachel would never dare to express . |
| 19 | But as the days turned into weeks , she felt even the slight hold she had on him slipping . |
| 20 | She felt all the better for it . |
| 21 | And she remembered then the old adage tossed around the dinner table by her parents ' friends , when the drink had loosened their tongues , and things were said that stuck in the mind like grit in the eye . |
| 22 | There was such tenderness in his face as he studied the tears flowing down her cheeks that she cried all the harder . |
| 23 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 24 | Thankfully , she cleared away the horrid masks . |
| 25 | Franca dried the wound with the paper , feeling as she did so the blazing warmth of the bruised knee , which was already swelling a little . |
| 26 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 27 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 28 | She had only the tiniest portion of porridge , a Baby Bear portion , but she took the longest to eat it , nibbling in tiny crumbs from the edge of the spoon . |
| 29 | Divorcee Mrs Robinson was arrested in April , 1989 , and while awaiting trial , she said she had only the vaguest idea of what she was being accused . |
| 30 | Then this woman says erm nine nine till five thirty I think she said well the five thirty bit would be alright would n't it |