Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] she [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 2 | By a similar argument a random decrease in aggregate demand will cause the typical agent to find the price in her market lower than she was initially expecting ; she will partly ( mistakenly ) infer from this that her relative price is low and will supply less output . |
| 3 | She also persuaded him to buy a hip-length jacket to help the suffering young lady keep warm if she was only sitting around nursing her ankle . |
| 4 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ And when do you start singing ‘ Yankee Doodle ’ , McAllister ? ’ said Dr Neil , provocative in his turn , but oh , she looked remarkable when she was all fired up , as he supposed she called it , and despite his resolution to have as little to do with her as possible he could not resist continuing to tease her . |
| 6 | And one daughter is taking A levels and the other is on her way , I 'm not sure if she 's actually taking O er GCSEs or |
| 7 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 8 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
| 9 | Only a thousand people a year use it ; but it 's useful if she 's really decamped and you do n't know where she is . |
| 10 | Jamila said that her husband was a good man , he did n't beat her , but she was unhappy because she was never allowed out to visit her parents and brother and sister . |
| 11 | Everything fine and dandy as long as she was gainfully occupied . |
| 12 | family that we know and th , they 're , one of their sons is fo erm in London I suppose erm adapt here and he 's rather upset because she is now coming over to Britain to work for Telecom ! |
| 13 | Nobody likes a child who is allowed to do whatever she likes , but then again no child is happy if she is always prevented from exploring . |
| 14 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 15 | She would probably be quite prepared to believe someone else was responsible as she was so besotted with him . |
| 16 | Since the shift in demand was not predictable , even rational people would not have expected it , and so the typical supplier would be finding the price of the good on her island higher than she was initially expecting the average price to be . |
| 17 | For the moment notice that if the typical supplier infers that her price is higher than she was initially expecting solely because of a relative demand shift in her favour , then the typical expected average price level will remain at P and the rise in the aggregate demand curve will lead to a rise in output equal to y 1 - y n . |
| 18 | She stood by him , she never reproached him for his failings , and at times he felt even worse because she was so forbearing . |
| 19 | In the company of work on offer here , the woman artist still finds herself on the defensive though she is laudably engaged in what Roberta Smith calls , the creation of ‘ a new kind of aesthetic back-talk ’ . |
| 20 | It was no use being vindictive if she was merely upsetting herself . |
| 21 | Her first record shows her to be as musical as she is technically accomplished . |
| 22 | She 's not very attractive when she 's done up but she 's attractive when she 's like sweating it out in her cycling shorts |