Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubled up in pain , and rested her forehead on the carpeted floor . |
| 2 | She whispered softly into his ear , ‘ Do you see the lake from here ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she whispered bitterly against his mouth , and when he refused to stop she bit hard into his lower lip . |
| 4 | But they were in her voice as she whispered down to her , ‘ It , 11 be all right . |
| 5 | ‘ I should have known , ’ she whispered fiercely to herself . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 7 | But her action was only momentary , and , ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she whispered almost at once . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted slowly at last , ‘ I suppose I was shocked … the truth was very different from what I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 9 | Not , she admitted truthfully to herself , that she had really wanted to . |
| 10 | Her eyes glittered , and , mouth twisting , she flung away from him . |
| 11 | ‘ Why not ? ’ she flung back at him . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been ashore , enjoying a short break to which I was perfectly entitled , ’ she flung back at him . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't have dared to be late , ’ she flung back over her shoulder , hoping he recognised the sarcasm in her tone . |
| 14 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 15 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 16 | She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter . |
| 17 | ‘ Butterfield 8 ’ she read out in a clear , schoolmarm voice . |
| 18 | The men were bowled over , and Topaz received many gilts of flowers , sweetmeats , and other trifles and a shower of love poems which she read aloud to Oswin as they rocked with laughter . |
| 19 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 20 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 22 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 23 | Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card . |
| 24 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 25 | She slouched back to the living room . |
| 26 | He lifted his hand to her face , tracing the line of her cheekbones with one exquisitely gentle finger , and she quivered helplessly beneath his touch . |
| 27 | She lunged forward at him , striking her talons on the bars where his face might have been and crashing her beak thunderously down . |
| 28 | Then she plunged forward with both hands , took fast hold of the thick tweed jacket , and dragged the inert body out of the river . |
| 29 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 30 | She plunged deeply into work to try and distract herself . |