Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them . |
| 2 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 3 | Deep inside she knew that if he had tried she would have repulsed him , and she looked out of the window at the moonlit sky . |
| 4 | Maybe she could n't offer guarantees , but somehow she knew that if anyone could save this baby , Niall was that person . |
| 5 | Each seemingly fond gesture had wound her up until now she felt as though she were a prisoner in a cell , wondering what her torturer had in mind for her next . |
| 6 | Now she thought that if she had to clear the table once more , put the few plates in the dish-washer , put the cereal packet away , brush the crumbs from the table top , she would scream and go on screaming : scream until the plaster started to crack from the walls and the neighbours gathered to stand whispering outside the window and the cat fled in terror . |
| 7 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 8 | Maybe she felt that if she could n't do it now , she would never do it ; maybe that was why her face hardened as she watched them , still apart , and imagined them , together . |
| 9 | Sometimes she thought that when they were old enough to be doubtful strangers themselves she would still be telling them to hold hands and watch the traffic . |
| 10 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 11 | I had meant her to laugh , but instead she frowned as though my happiness was a puzzle that needed to be understood . |
| 12 | Minutes they had been together and yet she felt that if he walked away out of her life now she would feel a loss that could n't be explained . |
| 13 | He spoke quietly , yet she trembled as though he 'd struck her . |