Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She flees for her life , yet she goes to almost certain death .
2 Sheila E , Prince 's drummer , had already established her musician 's credentials before she joined him , though it remains to be seen where she goes from here .
3 She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him .
4 She turns at once to the Women 's page , where there is a Posy Simmonds strip cartoon adroitly satirizing middle-aged , middle-class liberals , an article on the iniquities of the Unborn Children ( Protection ) Bill , and a report on the struggle for women 's liberation in Portugal .
5 She attacked at once : ‘ I suppose she 's told you that this is no longer my home so you think you can come and go as you please .
6 You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband .
7 She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person .
8 She fits in so well .
9 ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been .
10 And there was plenty to admire , she realised at once as her gaze travelled over the Regency bureau , the Chippendale cabinet , the Aubusson rug .
11 She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him .
12 She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear .
13 She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear .
14 But when she got to Auckland , when she found herself alone with Damian for three days and three nights … what would she think of then ?
15 And she sits over there and she counts the cars in the street .
16 Here he was on his deathbed , preparing for oblivion , and she sits over there reading Parson Noah 's latest pamphlet .
17 At the age of 29 , Durie must be wondering how much longer she has left to get hooked on that habit which she toyed with briefly six years ago when she reached the lofty heights of the world 's top five .
18 Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective .
19 She agreed at once . ’
20 She countered by deliberately breaking the rules , exhausting her opponents and winning by default .
21 No works of art were produced by Miss Wise , nor was she heard of again after 1918 ; she is believed to have been one of the victims of the influenza epidemic of that time .
22 That 's probably why she got through so many women .
23 When she got to twice twelve is twenty-four she did n't stop .
24 And yet Eve had never had anything new , she knew that whatever dress she got for today would be a reject .
25 In her two volumes she refers to more than eighty specific types of trees , flowers , plants and vegetables .
26 She refers with almost elegiac despondency to the once vast collections of eighteenth-century Polish aristocrats .
27 And she realized at once who it was .
28 Heated pain seemed to be filling her but it was a pain she clung to desperately , a feeling she had never experienced before .
29 The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor .
30 In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her .
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