Example sentences of "and she [verb] them [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shimmer of tears burned brightly in her eyes , and she rubbed them away with a trembling hand . |
| 2 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 3 | Tears of pride stung her eyes and she brushed them away with an impatient hand . |
| 4 | Neither of her back legs was functioning and she dragged them painstakingly behind her , taking all the weight on her front legs , her head hung low . |
| 5 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 6 | The tears welled up into her eyes again and she dashed them away with an impatient hand . |