Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 2 | And she hugged him tight , tight , as she had not done since he was much younger and liked to squeeze her back until she protested that she could n't breathe . |
| 3 | Julia tried to smile as she said goodbye to Joe but she hugged him fiercely . |
| 4 | She hugged him roughly . |
| 5 | But she admitted it eventually broke through her defences . |
| 6 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
| 7 | It made a high arc , vanishing against the sun as she flung it as far as she could . |
| 8 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 9 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |
| 10 | One thing was sure : when she met him again it would be Alain who would feel uncomfortable because there was no forgiving an action like that . |
| 11 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 12 | There was the man Jinny had seen before , with the cold blue eyes that almost made her shudder as she met them again , and there was a boy . |
| 13 | She thought that she would probably like her very much if she met her properly . |
| 14 | It occurred to her that the way she was holding Peach was the way a woman holds a baby and she lowered him gently into her lap . |
| 15 | To read ; she read them greedily . |
| 16 | Nobody read them but Clara , and she read them only because she read everything . |
| 17 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 18 | Then she read it again . |
| 19 | She read it over many times , letting her tears fall unchecked on the page . |
| 20 | She read it over . |
| 21 | She read it carefully twice , but her conclusion was the same both times . |
| 22 | She read it through then looked up at Philpott . |
| 23 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 24 | She read it through . |
| 25 | She read it through , added the word ‘ yours , ’ and sent it to him . |
| 26 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 27 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 28 | The lady unrolled her petition and in a voice trembling with outrage , she read it aloud : |
| 29 | Then came the letter ; and she read it aloud to them : |
| 30 | She read it quickly . |