Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 2 | Despite the way she discreetly booked into hotels as plain Miss Jones , she was ever available for interviews on local radio stations and always willing to pose with winners of concert tickets in the evening papers . |
| 3 | Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for . |
| 4 | Indeed , she rarely thought of him again . |
| 5 | She rarely thought about Ireland now — she had deliberately suppressed it , and usually it was only in her dreams that it rose unbidden to haunt her . |
| 6 | In truth , she rarely came across them . |
| 7 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 8 | Evelyn smiled , something she rarely did in Newman 's experience of her , brief though it might be . |
| 9 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 10 | Until the death of her sister , the Duchess of Alba , in 1860 , Eugénie would herself occasionally waltz with her husband at these ‘ Mondays ’ , but from 1860 onwards she rarely danced in public except as a duty . |
| 11 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 12 | Although sometimes Mrs Parvis talked about Dot , she rarely spoke to her , except to scold or reprimand , whereas Mrs Hollidaye went on talking cheerfully to Loopy Lil and to Dot even though neither replied . |
| 13 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 14 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 15 | Seating herself in solitary splendour , avoiding the accusing glances of his ancestors , she thankfully started on the thick vegetable soup , which , despite Feargal 's derogatory remarks about Mary and Rose , was excellent . |
| 16 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 17 | There were even rumours that her condition would force her withdrawal , but such scares proved unfounded and she duly arrived in the paddock . |
| 18 | She duly turned to the Psalms but found them equally disturbing . |
| 19 | As she lay in the dark , listening to the moan of the wind above the crash of the waves , she slowly came to the realisation that , although she had lost her father , his spirit would give her strength to go on without him . |
| 20 | She slowly walked towards Ludovico and Gioella . |
| 21 | Taking a deep breath , and casting her eyes up to the ceiling while she slowly counted to ten , Laura decided that motherhood was a highly overrated occupation . |
| 22 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 23 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 24 | Her heart was pounding fearfully as she slowly looked over her shoulder . |
| 25 | A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep . |
| 26 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 27 | Now , as she wearily trailed behind him into the main living-room , Laura 's nose wrinkled at the musty , stale atmosphere of the room . |
| 28 | In more or less timeless modern dress , the duel between the Christian knight Tancred and his former Saracen girlfriend Clorinda , she metaphorically encased in cap-a-pie armour is described by the narrator but enacted unseen behind a sofa . |
| 29 | She successfully traced over 90 per cent of these individuals some thirty years later , and collected information about them from interviews and records , including assessments by psychiatrists on the presence of psychiatric disturbance . |
| 30 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |