Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As his eager hands began to explore her nakedness she suddenly clamped her arms around him like a drowning man .
2 Without family guidance she sometimes finds it hard to manage , especially money .
3 After a recent stroke she now needs help with shopping and heavy housework .
4 At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life .
5 And even the woman in the examination the pianist she actually tells Tracey if some of them are bad or whatever .
6 Diminutive , dark-haired , she had the kind of flawless , honeyed skin that any woman would envy , and the sight of Niall 's hand , proprietorially against her back , filled Lindsey with an emotion she absolutely refused to acknowledge as jealousy .
7 For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there .
8 Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case .
9 Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make .
10 Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings .
11 In opposition she particularly urged her front-bench spokesmen to be attentive to the party 's back-bench committees relevant to their subjects .
12 But none of it was true — she 'd only said it to cover her own growing confusion , a confusion she now realised had come out of what she 'd begun to feel for him .
13 She spotted a sweater she once gave Edward for a birthday , and various throw-outs of her own .
14 The photograph she always used as a bookmark fluttered out of it .
15 In reply she always received an acknowledgement but rarely more unless Penini wrote .
16 This in itself caused her to feel guilty and so added to the distress she already suffered .
17 The route , via Donkey Lane , is lovely countryside and the experience should become the exact opposite of the stress and distress she obviously gets from driving .
18 She found she could get the attention and praise she wanted only by achieving , being good and caring for that pretty little monster she so resented .
19 There was still her car to worry about , not forgetting that interview she still had to secure , but …
20 Like some naughty child who 's been caught playing a prank she just kept her head low , staring at the floor .
21 With Tom Russell at the wheel she instinctively knew that nothing could go wrong .
22 Margaret 's partner Richard is serving an eight-year sentence for rape — a crime she firmly believes he did not commit .
23 Grandmother of 5 , Pamela Fitchew was preparing this morning for her day of reckoning , sentencing by a judge and possible time in prison for a crime she still claims she did n't commit .
24 By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it .
25 ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’
26 She had instinctive good taste , especially in her dress , and whatever the setting she always looked right .
27 The chief inspector shivered with an indefinable dread , the fear she always experienced when faced by a hatred that could only be satiated through violence .
28 When she came back after she went out there too his wedding she never mentioned it once again .
29 Yet the figure she eventually pulls out of the hat is not one likely to be recognised by many who came into contact with Freya Stark .
30 ‘ For the first time ever she had the figure she always wanted and wanted to share it with her fans , ’ said a friend .
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