Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she saw him in a new guise . |
| 2 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
| 3 | So she popped him into a plastic box , wrapped it in brown paper and posted it . |
| 4 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |
| 5 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 6 | Only his song could do the trick , and float the witch into a dreamless sleep , and so she tied him to a perch by a silken ribbon and put bells on his bird 's feet . |
| 7 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 8 | Three years later she accompanied him on a tour of India . |
| 9 | Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question . |
| 10 | He stood no taller than his daughter , probably she exceeded him by an inch or two , but he had the shoulders of a bull , and a great head of brindled brown hair laced with grey , like his short , square beard . |
| 11 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 12 | Women make their own minds up about what they want to do , I find , so I left it ; but about a year ago she invited me to a party and indicated that whoever it had been was no longer around . |
| 13 | She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward . |
| 14 | Then she woke him with a cup of tea . |
| 15 | Then she took him into a shoe shop — and Pip 's father sold her some new shoes for Anthony . |
| 16 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 17 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 18 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |