Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a sensual certainty about her , though she experienced as many philosophical doubts and emotional woes as the rest of us . |
| 2 | She read very few thrillers ; they reminded her of work . |
| 3 | She read too much newsprint , perhaps . |
| 4 | Then as she scanned yet another sheet , full of data , her eyes were brought to a halt by a red ball-point circle and exclamation marks . |
| 5 | You see , she expected so much , always had , and now she was expecting some miracle to come to her through her daughter . |
| 6 | A Finn represented the fusion of Scandinavia and Hungary ( to which country they were first cousins ) so no doubt she expected too much of Erkki . |
| 7 | Bertha Cohen snorted as if to convey that she expected as little from grandchildren as from children . |
| 8 | He did n't like her energy and her enthusiasm ; she made too much noise in his life . |
| 9 | By now Artemis was quite helpless with laughter , and had to put her napkin to her face in case she made too much noise . |
| 10 | His eyes made a comprehensive sweep of her and she realised belatedly that , in the hangover from her nightmare , she had forgotten her own state of undress . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not married ! ’ she retorted , and for a few moments as her world righted itself and she realised that she must have momentarily got her wires crossed , because he had already told her he was not married , she realised too that , up until a moment ago , he must have thought her — Mrs Barnaby Stewart . |
| 12 | Then she drinks too much and gets maudlin about this ex-boyfriend . |
| 13 | ‘ She drinks very little and she never prostituted herself . ’ |
| 14 | She sits there all evening and no-one even talks to her . |
| 15 | But she sits there all night flat as a shadow on the wall and there is music and celebration and other people dancing . |
| 16 | She averaged practically all of my marks for some unknown reason . |
| 17 | She thinks so much of her family . |
| 18 | But your mother she 'ad too many bébés . |
| 19 | She produces as many as twenty-two babies in a single batch . |
| 20 | Had n't she expected as much ? |
| 21 | She reported very little to us , I mean to Dieter . |
| 22 | She contributed very little to the conversation as they ate their meal . |
| 23 | But Diana has refused a personal invitation from the Queen to the church service and Christmas lunch — a clear signal that she wants as little as possible to do with the rest of the royals . |
| 24 | Sometimes she wants as much as 15 minutes before I 'm allowed to have intercourse . |
| 25 | How came she to know so much ? |
| 26 | She stands there all torn and tattered . |
| 27 | There wo n't be need to invite many , ’ she proposed carefully some days later . |
| 28 | This is why she places so much importance on the child 's appreciation of the adult 's motives and intentions in experimental tasks . |
| 29 | Did she know as much about cigars as she did about sweets ? ’ |
| 30 | The slighted Samaritan can , of course , reply on her own behalf that she does care about suffering in general but that she cares much more about its manifestations that she can do something about and that involve her personally . |