Example sentences of "and she [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew where she was going , and she wasted no time in getting there . |
| 2 | And she discovered a telephone ear-piece extension which allows her to listen and repeat the words of a caller to him . |
| 3 | When she first developed her symptoms the doctors had told her it was ‘ neuritis ’ , and she discovered the diagnosis herself by picking up a magazine article in a cafe . |
| 4 | In their anomalous behaviour electric arcs seemed to defy Ohm 's Law and she discovered the cause of this . |
| 5 | I smiled at her , and she jammed a copy of Pravda into my hand , her smile still ticking over . |
| 6 | And she saw a soldier 's face , permanently browned and weathered by sun and wind . |
| 7 | The sea answered her voice , and she saw a great heave of water rise and fling itself over the dunes . |
| 8 | She heard a footfall , she pressed herself back , keeping an eye on the street ; in a doorway , further on , a silhouette detached itself for a moment , and she saw a man throw his head back and shake it as if intoxicated , while holding his arms extended , and she fancied she heard him speak to his own fidanzata of that evening , she imagined him murmuring about her hair — as dark as a raven 's wing , perhaps ? |
| 9 | The door opened six inches and she saw a sliver of dark landing , stairs coiling away to the street . |
| 10 | A lot of people came in , and she saw a man and his wife . |
| 11 | Their bed had a wooden footboard and she saw a flicker of movement behind it in the half-light . |
| 12 | Just as she reached it , the light from a lantern spilled on to the square , and she saw a man enter the place behind it . |
| 13 | She began to say , ‘ Thank God … ’ then halted , as the door swung open and she saw a figure momentarily silhouetted against the pale evening light . |
| 14 | Then he handed it to Therese and she saw a small , round-faced young woman with bright eyes , and fair hair and the beginning of a double chin . |
| 15 | He frowned and she saw a muscle twitch in his jaw . |
| 16 | As her silence lengthened a muscle flexed in his jaw and she saw a flicker of murderous rage in his eye for one instant . |
| 17 | He waited , and she saw a hint of amusement in his face . |
| 18 | Balbinder would be 8 at Christmas and she saw no evidence of the improvement in learning to read and write that she was hoping for . |
| 19 | She knew he was going to the Mnarja festival at Buskett , and she saw no reason why the betrothal customs should stop her from going too . |
| 20 | They had not told him they were not going back to Antibes and she saw no point in trying to talk to him about Maurin or Sabine Jourdain or Barbara Coleman while he was in this state . |
| 21 | But then they began to climb up a narrow , spiral staircase , and she saw no more . |
| 22 | A crash behind her made her turn and she saw the enraged old man had hurled his soup dish at the far wall where it hit the pretty paper and ran in thin trickles down onto the pale-grey carpet . |
| 23 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 24 | ‘ I can imagine that , ’ said Catriona , and she saw the local , dark and quiet and fairly empty , and Forgue in his donkey jacket and tartan scarf listening to an old man talk about mining in Calgary . |
| 25 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 26 | Then her vision cleared and she saw the familiar objects , the Aga and the gas stove with the nearby working surfaces , the table of polished oak in the middle of the room with its four elegantly crafted chairs , and at the far end Alice 's office with the walls covered with bookshelves and her desk piled with proofs . |
| 27 | And she saw the big staircases leading up to the libraries and the lecture halls . |
| 28 | ‘ Seven hundred years of British rule , ’ Kevin declared , and she saw the tight line of his mouth . |
| 29 | The blood crust cracked , and she saw the night sky . |
| 30 | The line drawing faded , and she saw the colours as well as the warmths . |