Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 2 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 3 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 4 | She always felt like that when she spied on him which she did quite often , watching him through a gap in the hedge , or from the roof of the boathouse . |
| 5 | When her mother answered , she said the stupid thing she always said to those who were supposed to be close to her , ‘ It 's me . ’ |
| 6 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 7 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 8 | She was so concerned about her unborn baby , she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom . |
| 9 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 10 | Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow . |
| 11 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 12 | If Louisa had not dreamed badly on her first night at the Lodge it was because she hardly slept at all . |
| 13 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 14 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 15 | Lou continued to be the nearest he had to a first and real love and she still went to all the broadcasts and visited Pinewood for every film , sitting on her own canvas chair , sometimes by herself , frequently with her sister Daisy , of whom Ken himself was still very fond . |
| 16 | As she spoke , joy brightened her face , and the love she still felt for this man was alive in her every word . |
| 17 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
| 18 | She also asked for those who were unable to attend the AGM to be thanked for the lovely watch presented to her at the end of her term as Chairman . |
| 19 | Mademoiselle was n't quite sure whether she really believed in this spider or not . |
| 20 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 21 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 22 | She then talked to some pig experts and compiled the following pig compendium . |
| 23 | On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs . |
| 24 | But she firmly stamped on that thought . |
| 25 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 26 | She never returned from that mission ; it is believed that an explosion took place while she was directly over the site of the volcano . |
| 27 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 28 | She complained to the madam that she never went into that room . |
| 29 | She never went past that way if she could possibly avoid it . |
| 30 | She never thought at all about the hacienda until they were almost back there . |