Example sentences of "then she was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she was overcome by panic . |
| 2 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 3 | Succeeding flights opened up to her view and then she was looking at the lobby . |
| 4 | Then she was led into her bedroom . |
| 5 | Tamar went cold for a moment and then she was filled with a blinding rage . |
| 6 | Harriet was an exception but then she was reared by an exceptional man . |
| 7 | Then she was accosted by Charlie and Stuart began to laugh . |
| 8 | Her two hands went to her face ; then she was flying to the door next to the factory and , hammering on it , called , ‘ Tommy ! |
| 9 | and then she was girning on the phone because |
| 10 | It took a couple of seconds to sink in , then she was struggling into the boiler suit , using language , under her breath , which would have made treble word scores in Rude Scrabble . |
| 11 | Then she was moved to Newcastle General Hospital before returning to Gwent . |
| 12 | ‘ Then she was asked to be the local carnival queen . |
| 13 | Light enveloped Ruth , a heatless blaze which seemed for an instant about to destroy her ; and then she was gone into a great space of darkness . |
| 14 | I mean she was in Park Hospital for so long and then she was transferred to a nursing home in Thornton . |
| 15 | Then she was dragged off her feet as the lines pulled her and the loops tightened round her wrists . |
| 16 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 17 | If she was going to be devoured , well then She was going to be devoured . |
| 18 | Well , she was going to Birmingham and then she was going to in a careers office . |
| 19 | And then she was going to the careers office . |
| 20 | And then she was going to bed |
| 21 | It was several paralysed seconds before Meredith 's befogged brain registered what he was doing , and by then she was staring with darkening eyes at a beautifully toned naked chest . |
| 22 | He gasped her name as her body closed around him and then she was dominated by his power until she slid off the end of the world into warm darkness . |
| 23 | But then she was confronted with a game she could not play . |
| 24 | Then she was dumped on one end of the table and given a dab of butter to taste , and , soon , a lump of dough to squeeze , roll into little grey spindles on the floury table-top . |
| 25 | She braced herself , her face flaming as her body made contact with his , then she was fighting in earnest as the sheer physical awareness of his body tore through her . |
| 26 | First he was admitted to a Part III residential home , and then she was admitted with him . |
| 27 | Then she was running towards the village , ignoring the small scutterings on the bank beside the road , her old sandals almost soundless on the tarmac . |
| 28 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 29 | And then the Larch moved back , and Fenella clung to its poor torn branches and the sticky evil effluence melted back , and there was a horrid oozing clutching feeling , and then she was pulled across the floor , and she was free . |
| 30 | She can now take twice as much clothing then she was allowed on previous trips and she can travel at her own speed , instead of low flying across Europe with Steve , who is a THORP contractor with John Brown Engineering at Sellafield . |