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

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1 In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all .
2 The most notable of these was the occasion when faced alone by an escaped lion she single-handedly wrestled it to the ground and
3 She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather .
4 Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits .
5 She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments .
6 She only fought him for a moment or two .
7 On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’
8 She only did it as a temporary measures just
9 Fearing to open it , she nevertheless forced herself across the room , but when it swung open a maid in a black dress and smart white apron stood before her .
10 He had called her shortly after midnight , she already knew something of the personalities involved .
11 Maybe she just said it in the heat of anger or whatever .
12 Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was
13 She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life .
14 She scarcely recognised herself in the woman who confronted her .
15 Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them .
16 When a thought occurred to her , she quickly noted it on the pad .
17 In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter .
18 All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all .
19 Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away .
20 She always struck me as a ginger nut sort of person .
21 She once lost one on the tube .
22 She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own .
23 And what pride she had , that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house , and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire .
24 He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her .
25 Once again a very enjoyable evening , erm , I pushed into something that er , I do n't think she really wanted to do initially , but she thoroughly enjoyed it at the end .
26 She practically flung herself into the driver 's seat , moaning loudly with pain as she eased herself into position and started the engine .
27 She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away .
28 She also compared them with a standard-style hot-brush ( only for dry hair ) , the Braun Independent 500 Combi ( £16.95 ) .
29 She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic .
30 It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears .
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