Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Barney darling , ’ she whispered in a soft mid Atlantic accent , ‘ how lovely to see you again . |
| 2 | ‘ The former , ’ she admitted with a wry little smile . |
| 3 | A wedge approach to three feet produced an eagle three at the ninth , while her solitary lapse was the four she made at the short 16th . |
| 4 | She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything , to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone . |
| 5 | But then he was n't likely to believe anything good about her , she realised with a sudden profound pang of sorrow . |
| 6 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 7 | She lived in a big old tenement block . |
| 8 | Instead she gazed into the dully glowing ashes of the dying fire and remembered a wild , enchanted garden and a tender , handsome soldier who had awoken her to approaching womanhood with one gentle kiss and a rose . |
| 9 | She gazed at the vivid scarlet variety . |
| 10 | Rosie too was wiping away tears ; she gazed round the old familiar room and asked , ‘ Where 's Connor ? |
| 11 | ‘ No , not Suzie , ’ she agreed with a small humourless smile . |
| 12 | ‘ No , it 's not a crime , ’ she agreed with a bitter little laugh . |
| 13 | She crept towards the shattered front window and peered out . |
| 14 | She points to the additional 1.9 per cent which is being offered for growth and argues the more explicit guidelines are there to ‘ make sure we are getting value for money ’ . |
| 15 | Last year she asked for a big French dictionary for her birthday . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked in a hollow little voice . |
| 17 | There are the actions he or she contributes to the total social process , and there are the accounts in which action is interpreted , criticized and justified . |
| 18 | She trembled at the strange new erotic sensation of hot and cold flushes within her loins . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Leo , ’ she exclaimed on a husky little laugh , ‘ I ca n't believe this is happening ! |
| 20 | And if I never , ever see St Stephen 's Green again it will be far too soon ! ’ she exclaimed with an endearing little grin . |
| 21 | No one could have been more attentive than Mrs Gaskell to that interior ; one feels that she writes with a precise remembered image in her mind . |
| 22 | Beatrice was anxious not to follow what she regarded as the purposeless social round of the society wife and felt that the ‘ governing and guiding ’ work performed by women philanthropists was much less likely to ‘ unsex ’ women than academic work or the ‘ push and severity ’ demanded of a professional woman such as the hospital matron . |
| 23 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 24 | She lives in a cosy detached home , with plush wall to wall axminster . |
| 25 | She lives in a comfortable shabby house covered in crumbling stucco , with an overgrown garden full of great elms and sycamores , which fill the house with a soft green light . |
| 26 | She rose from the furry white armchair which he was sure was her choice . |
| 27 | The figure is Sien , painfully stripped naked , her bony shanks drawn up as she squats on a sawn-off dead tree stump . |
| 28 | She staggered to the heavy Victorian armchair against the wall outside Chief Inspector Martin 's office , Colonel Hoggatt 's chair . |
| 29 | ‘ But … how did she know about the poor old Colonel 's hip ? ’ |
| 30 | She knelt on the tufted rebellious grass and closed her eyes . |