Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 2 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 3 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 4 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 5 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 6 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 7 | In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice . |
| 8 | As she caught her breath , her temper erupted , and in wild self-defence she pushed against the steel wall of his chest , twisted frantically in his arms , her grey eyes sparking fire as she lifted her hand to hit out at him blindly . |
| 9 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 10 | The Niue People 's Action Party ( NPAP ) , Niue 's only formal political association ( which was strongly opposed to the leadership of Sir Robert Rex who had dominated politics since Niue became self-governing ) , made gains with the victory of sympathizers including Tauveve Jacobsen , who retained the seat she won in a 1989 by-election , and Sani Lakitani , the founder of the NPAP . |
| 11 | As he turned back to his car she fled across the motorway . |
| 12 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 13 | In her mind she went over the transformation . |
| 14 | And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone . |
| 15 | A quick glance at her watch showed that she would have time for a short walk outside before dinner , and with this in mind she sprang from the bed and raked a comb through her hair . |
| 16 | To cover her confusion she enquired after the latest entertaining village gossip from Lucy , who was prone to whiling away hours at the ante-natal clinic in deep conversation with fellow village wives . |
| 17 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 18 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 19 | This result she attributed to the very short duration of persistence of the icon , which meant that it had faded before the cue could be utilised to sample selectively . |
| 20 | Beatrice Webb signed the Appeal , although as she recorded in her diary for 1889 , she was impressed by a reply she received from a woman who complained that her lodger could vote but she could not , and that while she could vote for her parish council and her local Poor Law Guardians , she could not do so for an MP . |
| 21 | She has started to reject the liver and bowel she received in a transplant last year after a huge fund-raising campaign to send her to America . |
| 22 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 23 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 24 | For the interview she opted for a cream silk shirt , and a tailored black skirt . |
| 25 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 26 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 27 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 28 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 29 | chapter she appeals to the reader , I know I came from etcetera , etcetera |
| 30 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |