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Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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	So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to .
8	So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut .
9	So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears !
10	They rattled as she stalked , sometimes alarming her prey , and so she scattered them into the sand , to be ingested by the things that lived below the dunes .
11	So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another .
12	Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground .
13	Gently she placed them in the carrier bag .
14	Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened .
15	Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus .
16	Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it .
17	Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing .
18	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 .
19	Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove .
20	Three years later she accompanied him on a tour of India .
21	Years later she reminded me of a forgotten and to me everyday kind of question .
22	Tenderly she laid it on the bed .
23	She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him .
24	It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube .
25	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 .
26	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 .
27	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 .
28	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 .
29	She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete .
30	But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself .