Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] [conj] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he tore his bleeding fingers from her mouth , and gaped in horror as she screamed , and went on screaming . |
| 2 | She winced in pain as she felt a shock across her back at the impact . |
| 3 | Her eyebrows rose in astonishment when she saw that somebody had taken her parking place . |
| 4 | Disgust rose in Theda as she made her way along the gallery . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry , sweetheart , you need a pass , ’ he said , then gawked in surprise as she pushed past him and dashed straight through . |
| 6 | ‘ Nothing to tell ? ’ she exclaimed in astonishment as she shrugged violently away from his touch . |
| 7 | Marion exclaimed in disgust as she stooped through the door . |
| 8 | They might look like cornflakes , ’ she added in inspiration as she saw the packet on the shelf , ‘ but , believe me , they 're rice crispies ! ’ |
| 9 | Roma Ryan tells me she was a visual artist — she specialised in batik before she met Nicholas and produced a family . |
| 10 | Hair , streaked with the colours of the sun , tumbled down her back and over her shoulders and swung in waves as she shimmied down the catwalk . |
| 11 | Clare yelled in pain as she fell on scratchy , frosted bracken . |
| 12 | Next morning , she yawned , wakened , saw his beard , and yelped in alarm before she remembered where she was . |
| 13 | She lived in hope as she waited for her lung swap |
| 14 | Nurse bodkin winked in delight as she waltzed past . |
| 15 | The nurse 's chin quivered in indignation as she reported that the girl was no more than a child . |
| 16 | ‘ Our King John ? ’ she asked in surprise as she stared at the ruined fort that overlooked the lough . |
| 17 | They settled in armchairs and she saw how the standard lamp threw shadows on his face , accentuating the hollows in his cheeks and the overhang of his brow so that his eyes seemed to sink into their sockets and burn there in the firelight like lamps in darkened caves . |
| 18 | Mrs McMahon called in astonishment as she emerged from the lounge . |
| 19 | She put her finger to her lips and he watched in astonishment as she opened her dressing to reveal that she had nothing on . |
| 20 | Jacques Devraux watched in silence as she stepped out of her sodden clothing . |
| 21 | Lucien watched in silence as she removed a brass censer and a black veil . |
| 22 | He watched in awe as she wrenched off her smart hat and threw it into the carriage with her gloves . |
| 23 | They stared in surprise and she said in a tired voice , ‘ Oh it does n't matter , I suppose , not the old skull , but he 's run me ragged just lately , picking up things round the house and putting them down where they should n't be . |
| 24 | A year ago , the Commons listened in silence as she gave a graphic eyewitness account of the suffering of Kurdish refugees on the Iran-Iraq border in the aftermath of the Gulf War . |
| 25 | But he recoiled in disgust when she came near him . |
| 26 | The sensations within her grew in intensity until she felt they must be reflected in her eyes . |
| 27 | Liz had never admired , and had at times expressed somewhat freely ( and in her own view wittily ) her lack of response to Henrietta 's frigid style and vapid conversation , but nevertheless felt herself , in Henrietta 's presence , rendered almost as dull as Henrietta , and moreover uneasily aware that in other houses , in other milieux , at a distance , in other circles , she had seen Henrietta sparkling , laughing , surrounded by life — vacuous life , feverish small talk , no doubt , but life — a life that froze in Liz as she contemplated her guest 's stiff blue taffeta gown ( this was surely a gown , not a dress , and , not even English , probably French ) , her exposed white bosom , her diamond necklace ( well , probably diamonds , why not ? ) , her high white forehead , her thin dark-red lips . |
| 28 | The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house . |
| 29 | And while he was about it , Guy told himself savagely , he had better discover what little plot Isabel had in mind once she reached Winchester . |
| 30 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |