Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skidded to a halt , threw her leg over the saddle as though dismounting from a charger , and began to harangue Hugh in words he did n't understand . |
| 2 | ‘ That was n't fair ! ’ she laughed as she skidded to a halt in the yard . |
| 3 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
| 4 | ‘ In the name of our love , forgive me ! ’ she whispered with a dry mouth . |
| 5 | ‘ You met her here , did n't you ? ’ she whispered with a stab of insight . |
| 6 | ‘ What have you done now , Jim ? ’ she whispered in a shaking voice . |
| 7 | ‘ Barney darling , ’ she whispered in a soft mid Atlantic accent , ‘ how lovely to see you again . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not like … ’ she whispered in a voice so quiet that it brought both of them lower in their cages to get nearer to her , the argument between them forgotten , ‘ … |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , look ! ’ she whispered in an awed kind of voice , and flicked a glance from the squirrel to Ven , to find that he was looking — at her ! |
| 10 | ‘ I — I do n't know what you 're talking about , ’ she whispered after a moment . |
| 11 | ‘ No , it is n't , ’ she admitted with a self-deprecatory smile , glad to keep the conversation impersonal . |
| 12 | ‘ The former , ’ she admitted with a wry little smile . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
| 14 | ‘ I — I 'm afraid so , ’ she admitted in a small voice . |
| 15 | she admitted in a low voice . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ she admitted in a whisper . |
| 17 | Spain did not become a great mercantile nation because she failed as a naval power to retain political control of her great empire , and as a producer to supply cheap goods . |
| 18 | Banned from seeing her six-month-old baby after being charged with assaulting the child in her cot at a London hospital , yesterday she failed in a bid to win supervised access . |
| 19 | Going into the hall , she flung on a coat , pocketed the keys lying on the silver salver , and let herself out into the night . |
| 20 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 21 | Most of the daughters ( except Rose , who lost an eye ) soon married , but Minnie 's marriage to Abe Greenbaum came to an abrupt end when she did a ‘ bunk with Claud ’ — a doctor she met on a visit to London . |
| 22 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 23 | ‘ The TV crew on The Darling Buds Of May know that I hate my backside , so they 're always making little comments , ’ she revealed in an exclusive interview . |
| 24 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 25 | She read for a while , trying to close her mind to the sounds from the galley , the picture of Fen enjoying his supper and — simply — any pictures of Fen at all . |
| 26 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |
| 27 | Annis Garfield , caused a major row 2 years ago when she applied for a teaching post under a false name and was offered an interview , despite her application being littered with spelling mistakes . |
| 28 | She applied for a grant , and in , er in career , it says like , |
| 29 | At the end of a long gold chain she carried a Georgian spyglass which she applied in a rather menacing manner to a small , beady eye . |
| 30 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |