Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
| 2 | She read anything ; she read in all directions . |
| 3 | When he pulled himself together he rang Rachel , in search of that mixture of common sense and warmth that she applied to all emotional crises . |
| 4 | She grew yams she grew millet she grew vegetables and sunflowers and the food she shared with all the family . |
| 5 | Every word he spoke was true ; but she fought with all her will against the impulse to agree to his face . |
| 6 | My goodness , what a commotion it would cause if she announced to all these posh people that James Halden had once seduced her . |
| 7 | She checked with all the contributing editors to ensure that the copy still needed for the forthcoming issue of Athene was in hand . |
| 8 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 9 | Reacting to him physically , just as she used to all those years ago . |
| 10 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 11 | She had revelled in old-fashioned melodramatic stories in days gone by , and had a stock of these expressions which she used in all sincerity . |
| 12 | For example , working with someone who is an ‘ emotional eater ’ , I created the family table and she played through all the parts round the table at childhood meal times to the camera . |
| 13 | This approach she adopted in all her subsequent work thereby introducing a revolutionary style of attack on problems of algebra . |
| 14 | And yet , she believed with all her heart that there was a great deal of goodness in the boy , buried beneath the sorrow and the hurt . |
| 15 | Suddenly , she yearned above all things to break into their home movie . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm — not sure , ’ she answered on a whisper , as she strove with all she could find to keep her feet firmly on the ground because something too wonderful , too impossible , too impossibly wonderful was happening — was n't it ? |
| 17 | All because of one silly accident , which had n't even been her fault , her life for the next long miserable eighteen months was to be ruled by a man whom she detested with all her heart . |
| 18 | In a fit of temper she arranged for all the surrounding elms to catch Dutch Elm Disease and quickly died . |
| 19 | She curved in all the right places and could never be anything but feminine . |
| 20 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 21 | I do not think she benefited at all financially — if she did it was a very small amount — and would n't have been able to keep any of the furniture had it not been for the kindness of Aunt Mary . |
| 22 | For the first time Clare learnt what a passionate woman 's kisses were like , on the lips of one she loved with all her heart and soul , as Tess loved him . |
| 23 | She had lost the one man she loved in all the world . |
| 24 | She thrived on all the attention and excitement . |
| 25 | She worked in all weathers , ‘ pouring her paint on with tremendous freedom and power ’ . |
| 26 | " I wonder what 's happened to Son — still , better not wake her , she worked till all hours last night , she deserves a bit of a lay-in . |
| 27 | The call up the stairs made her compress her lips as she called on all her reserves of courage to face the ordeal ahead of her . |
| 28 | She talked with all the unconscious confidence of a woman who has seen and understood the effects of her beauty on other people for years and yet there was an individuality about her that Julia had not expected , and a strange wistfulness . |
| 29 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 30 | She took in all of the warehouse . |