Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung herself crying on to Mrs Hollidaye 's lap , knocking Mrs Hollidaye 's afternoon hat sideways . |
| 2 | She expected everyone to live up to her own high moral standards and there was an overwhelming feeling that if you did not , you had somehow failed . ’ |
| 3 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 4 | You know , she made him sit down in the middle in front of everybody you see |
| 5 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 6 | She prayed , and took up vegetarianism , more as an extra religion than as part of the war effort ; after a while she made herself go back to the hospital , and eventually she found Higher Mathematics . |
| 7 | She made herself stand up to him , " The water tank up there is rotten , it 's rusting . |
| 8 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 9 | Yeah eh she asked me to go over to John |
| 10 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 11 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 12 | She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan . |
| 13 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 14 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 15 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 16 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 17 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 18 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |
| 19 | To her annoyance she found herself glancing over in the direction of his table , but saw only an empty chair . |
| 20 | And as she stood there , listening to the sounds coming from the kitchen , of glasses clinking and water splashing , she found herself glancing down at his coat . |
| 21 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 22 | After he had left , she found herself looking down at her thin , ring-encrusted fingers , at the age-mottled knuckles against which , briefly , his lips had rested . |
| 23 | Her hand strayed to touch his short thick hair , a small yelp of surprise escaping her as her wrist was grasped by strong fingers and she found herself looking down into alert blue eyes . |
| 24 | This time , however , without even knowing what she was going to do , she found herself striding up to them and yelling ‘ Oy ! ’ |
| 25 | She found herself caught up in an intensely speculative gaze . |
| 26 | Sarella gave a gasp as she found herself staring up into the thunderous face of Marc himself . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , over one hour later she found herself lying back against the pillows and staring up at the ceiling , completely unable to go to sleep . |
| 28 | In spite of her discomfort , she must have dozed off , because she found herself sitting up with a start , all her senses suddenly alerted by the sound of a key , the creak of a hinge . |
| 29 | By some manoeuvre which was so swift that Ruth did not observe it , she found herself sitting up in front beside Sean , while Miss Beard and Herbert Fraser kept each other company in the back of the carriage . |
| 30 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |