Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |
| 3 | Months later , in her first published novel , she finally broke with the dominance of abstraction ; and Under the Net dances lyrically and playfully around the philosophical idea suggested in its title . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe my future , ’ she finally answered with a shudder . |
| 5 | She just pleaded with me to let her stay with me till the baby was born and then she would try and gather the courage to tell her family . ’ |
| 6 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 7 | Satisfied with the merest hint of make-up she had used on her heart-shaped face , she emptied out the small jewellery sachet she always took with her on her travels . |
| 8 | There must have been something specially feline about that particular note , because Gautier carried out experiments to see if he could fool the cat , but she always responded with her critical paw precisely when the note reached high A. |
| 9 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 10 | When the aunt spoke to the children , she always began with ‘ Do n't … |
| 11 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 12 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 13 | She was attracted by the privation of the life , which she always linked with virtue , and she liked its sexual freedom . |
| 14 | She usually left with one of the men . |
| 15 | They did not look like the kind of people she usually associated with but seemed inimical , common , even savage , and with truculent , peevish faces . |
| 16 | She avoided conversation with the other passengers , who , she saw immediately , were in commerce and not the sort of people she usually mixed with . |
| 17 | Man , she hardly registered with me at all . ’ |
| 18 | Tonight near the Forest Green home she once shared with him and the baby she 's trying to come to terms with what 's happened |
| 19 | The network of health and social work support she had enjoyed fell away , but she led a full life and drove her own car , though she still lived with her parents . |
| 20 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 21 | She did n't think about it , but in her mental geography , the vivid world consisted of herself and her father at the centre ; Thomas and Leo , a short distance away ; then a little further , the Princesse and Violette and Portia whom she still corresponded with regularly . |
| 22 | That much relationship she still had with him , she thought . |
| 23 | She nearly collided with him . |
| 24 | She had never seen a dragon before , and now she nearly exploded with joy . |
| 25 | She nearly gasped with dismay at the shock that shivered down into her tummy . |
| 26 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 27 | She positively glowed with it . |
| 28 | She also suffered with abdominal bloating , headaches , irritability , depression and severe cravings for sweet foods . |
| 29 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
| 30 | She also sang with Lothian Gaelic Choir and coached disabled horse riders . |