Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubled up as matron , treating every illness , injury , headache or toothache with determined suspicion , certain in her own mind that the pupil was trying to get away with something . |
| 2 | She doubled up as another pain hit her . |
| 3 | ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is , ’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | She stalked off before she said something that he might regret , stepping accidentally on one of the deactivated security drones now littering the Base , and cracking its delicate shell . |
| 5 | The hotel was n't really big enough for her to get confused as she checked up whether to turn left or right down the passage . |
| 6 | She got up as she saw Ian beckoning from the doorway . |
| 7 | so she got up as well . |
| 8 | How you met her , how she got on when she first came over here … ’ |
| 9 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 10 | But she did n't want Uncle Albert explaining it to her when she got back if she could work it out for herself . |
| 11 | She straightened up as Melissa approached , pulled off one of her gardening gloves and combed back her hair with her fingers . |
| 12 | She bounded off as though over stepping stones , from one object to another that would scarcely hold , old tyres , old boots , the ribs of crates from which the seagulls were dislodged in resentment . |
| 13 | And Phyllis put her skates on — off she went — bought a house down there — she moved in before the factory opened . |
| 14 | She loosened up after she 'd had a bit to drink and told me about it . |
| 15 | The bill had already been taken care of , she found out as she asked a porter to help with their bags . |
| 16 | Sycorax was there when the baby was born , but she crumpled up when the infant was put in her arms by Ariel . |
| 17 | She was sitting by the window at a little table she used as a writing desk , and she jerked round as he entered the room , but she did n't rise . |
| 18 | The attacks were short and occasionally occurred at night ( she woke up before the attacks started ) . |
| 19 | If Luke were grooming her , she lashed out if he brushed her belly or round her ears , and went for anyone else who came near her . |
| 20 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 21 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
| 22 | When she came back after she went out there too his wedding she never mentioned it once again . |
| 23 | ‘ So keen , ’ said Rain , ‘ that she came back once we were all with Durance . ’ |
| 24 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |
| 25 | She threw up until the nausea passed , just as it always did if she drank alcohol , but now it was almost as if her body already knew alcohol was bad for the tiny life growing inside her . |
| 26 | She turned up when Laura was married in 1984 and she stood at the back of the church because she did not want to detract from the bride 's big day . |
| 27 | She turned round so she could twist it and run . |
| 28 | A frisson wriggled down her spine but the room held no other occupant and though she turned round as soon as she decently could , Berndt Tjerssen contrived to look like a sweet , chubby old man . |
| 29 | She turned round as she reached the pavement to discover Urquhart a few steps behind . |
| 30 | Angrily she cut in before he could finish . |