Example sentences of "she [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 2 | As she sat there , she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power . |
| 3 | With a good heavy hot iron , it would stop belling out here and there , she thought , and she experienced a flash of pleasure at the quickness and deftness of her work . |
| 4 | Now , standing beside Fernand in the mouth of a gash in the cliff , with the river raging beneath their feet and an ink-dark cavern ahead , she experienced a tingle of awe and anticipation that swept away the fear and the vertigo . |
| 5 | She experienced a lot of pain and perhaps always would ; her privations may have damaged her health permanently . |
| 6 | And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic . |
| 7 | When she threw back her veil , she revealed a face of perfect beauty . |
| 8 | Opening the nearest , she revealed a store of golden grain . |
| 9 | She read a lot of magazines : Cosmo in high school and then Vogue . |
| 10 | Shrugging , she applied a touch of soft coral lipstick and a dusting of grey-green eyeshadow . |
| 11 | The explanation can not be in terms of Carol 's lack of competence in Creole , since she displays a knowledge of Creole forms throughout the conversation . |
| 12 | She scanned a line of lights , pressed three more tabs . |
| 13 | She lacked a sense of humour . ’ |
| 14 | Her guard was up all the time and she lacked a sense of humour . |
| 15 | Herthumbs pressed symmetrical eye sockets , and she slung a lump of clay for his nose , patting , sheering … stopping herself from too much detail just yet . |
| 16 | She made a pot of tea . |
| 17 | She made a pot of strong coffee , and reached for the envelope . |
| 18 | She put the card down , and pondered as she made a pot of tea . |
| 19 | She made a mess of her life . |
| 20 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |
| 21 | If she made a success of the job it would mean a permanent saving in police manpower as well as a useful training for her . |
| 22 | ‘ She made a fool of me , Wayne , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The second one — the one she made a couple of weeks ago — i-s a bit more complicated , but not much . |
| 24 | Unfortunately she made a mistake of naming the church where Jesus was found as St George 's , which happened to be a Church of England edifice . |
| 25 | He converted my mother to Food Reform , and when she made a salad of grated vegetables for Christmas dinner in 1955 , my father walked out and I wish he 'd taken us with him . |
| 26 | When I got through she made a kind of whistling noise through her teeth . |
| 27 | She made a kind of progress up the Palladian marble stair . |
| 28 | ‘ With your reputation , Jimmy , I think it unlikely , ’ she replied lightly , and taking the papers from him , she made a pretence of studying them , but not one fact or figure was she taking in . |
| 29 | Of a miniature golf course — you have to get your ball over a lunar landscape … ’ she made a gesture of a hop and curve or a spinning ball . |
| 30 | She made a gesture of pledging , her hand hovering over her heart . |