Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their feelings were intense , and he made love to her with an ardour she met and matched with a fiery passion that consumed them both in a blaze of glory . |
| 2 | The return to speech and motion had cost Ariel so much that when Kit had gone , she choked and vomited from the pit of her belly until green bile came up and burned her . |
| 3 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 4 | Furiously she rubbed , unknowing that she passed and repassed over the same bright spot , while the images came and went , flitting through . |
| 5 | Deciding business before pleasure , she dismounted and walked up the front drive of the vicarage . |
| 6 | She bent and fiddled with a machine at her feet . |
| 7 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 8 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 9 | She rose and stalked across the room , snatched her brush from the vanity table and dragged it through her hair with harsh , angry strokes . |
| 10 | She rose and stooped for the shell . |
| 11 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 12 | She rose and moved to the window and stared out into the silent square . |
| 13 | She rose and hurried to the door and opening it saw not Craig but the small figure of Will Davies crouching in the street . |
| 14 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 15 | Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch . |
| 16 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 17 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 18 | She stopped and looked to the side , and when she did n't continue , he said , ‘ He 's tried to commit suicide ? ’ |
| 19 | But once inside the consulting room she stopped and looked towards the desk behind which was sitting a strange man , a young man . |
| 20 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 21 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 22 | She stopped and sat on the grass verge . |
| 23 | She gobbled and gabbled in the mornings — that was to do with her teeth , not very pretty either . |
| 24 | Checking her rear-view mirror , she accelerated and moved into the centre of the road , not noticing the dark-grey jeep pulling out in front of the truck . |
| 25 | She came and knocked on the door and then we went back and I , I said what you stopped for ? |
| 26 | She came and sat on the bed which creaked uneasily with the weight . |
| 27 | Then acting like a fifteen-year-old girl now , she turned and ran along the path , around the ornamental clock , and kept running until she reached the east gate of the park . |
| 28 | She turned and ran into the hall , already beginning to laugh at her foolishness . |
| 29 | She turned and lunged into the crumbling bank with the torch until it lodged and held still , focused upon the motionless bulk below . |
| 30 | The duvet wound itself around her as she turned and stretched in the big bed , her limbs languid with heat . |