Example sentences of "and she [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up into the thin face of Edward Morris . |
2 | Bessie was busy rolling out pastry for the meat pies and she looked up at the young nurse . |
3 | The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest . |
4 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
5 | There was no table set and she looked round for a sideboard that must house such things as cutlery . |
6 | Deep inside she knew that if he had tried she would have repulsed him , and she looked out of the window at the moonlit sky . |
7 | On her way , she passed the room with the light on , and she looked in with a stab of surprised longing at the cosy scene inside . |
8 | The wall of the house was behind her and she leant back against the warm brickwork and closed her eyes . |
9 | He moved towards her and she flinched back against the cushions . |
10 | They fell apart , wood splintering , nails wrenching , and she burst out of the side of a building . |
11 | That stung , and she swung round in the seat , her hands clenching into fists . |
12 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
13 | hit the front of the car and she went that way , and she finished up in the hedge |
14 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
15 | And she went out of the room , leaving Clare and Bryony facing one another over two thousand five hundred sheets of paper that had to be folded by Friday . |
16 | He turned the horse away and walked off , ignoring her , and she went back to the house seething with annoyance . |
17 | He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made . |
18 | It was like a drug , like the swell of the ocean , and she went down under the waves . |
19 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
20 | The warm wind blew her hair from her face and she gazed out across the sea where craggy pitons struggled up from the blue sea . |
21 | ‘ I 'm going to cry until I 'm ill ! ’ and she dropped on to the floor , her shoulders shaking and the tears rolling down her face . |
22 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
23 | Jack went past Resus and hailed her , and she popped out into the corridor . |
24 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
25 | When I went the receptionist was just leaving and she walked down into the town with me . |
26 | ‘ What rubbish you talk , ’ his mother said and she walked out of the room with her ironing . |
27 | And she walked out of the room with something of the same wary insistence on normality . |
28 | As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit . |
29 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |
30 | She pushed against the door , it creaked open and she fell out onto the damp grassy verge . |