Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly she saw him in a new guise .
2 Suddenly she found herself under an intense media spotlight , enduring a 24-hour guard until she was 16 .
3 If Eleanor Darcy can manage a private room in a prison , perhaps she manages one in the local pub as well ?
4 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 .
5 So she popped him into a plastic box , wrapped it in brown paper and posted it .
6 So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes .
7 So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line .
8 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 .
9 So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to .
10 So she moves them to a nearby burrow when they are approximately four weeks old and at that time they will have become virtually self-supporting .
11 So she approaches it in a better frame of mind .
12 So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut .
13 So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears !
14 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 .
15 So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another .
16 At two o'clock she seated herself at a window-table in a restaurant overlooking the Nile , near where the houseboat was moored .
17 Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground .
18 Gently she placed them in the carrier bag .
19 Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened .
20 Finally she shut herself in the attic room on Ella 's day off and sobbed until she ached in body and soul .
21 Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape .
22 Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing .
23 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 .
24 Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called .
25 Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it .
26 Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing .
27 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 .
28 I 'll bet she thinks that directly she lets me into the A.R.R.U. I 'll do a Charlie Peters !
29 Later she sprays him with an atomiser .
30 Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove .
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