Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She whispered softly into his ear , ‘ Do you see the lake from here ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she whispered bitterly against his mouth , and when he refused to stop she bit hard into his lower lip . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have known , ’ she whispered fiercely to herself . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’ |
| 5 | But her action was only momentary , and , ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she whispered almost at once . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted slowly at last , ‘ I suppose I was shocked … the truth was very different from what I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 7 | Not , she admitted truthfully to herself , that she had really wanted to . |
| 8 | Her eyes glittered , and , mouth twisting , she flung away from him . |
| 9 | The men were bowled over , and Topaz received many gilts of flowers , sweetmeats , and other trifles and a shower of love poems which she read aloud to Oswin as they rocked with laughter . |
| 10 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 11 | Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 13 | Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card . |
| 14 | He lifted his hand to her face , tracing the line of her cheekbones with one exquisitely gentle finger , and she quivered helplessly beneath his touch . |
| 15 | She lunged forward at him , striking her talons on the bars where his face might have been and crashing her beak thunderously down . |
| 16 | Then she plunged forward with both hands , took fast hold of the thick tweed jacket , and dragged the inert body out of the river . |
| 17 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 18 | She plunged deeply into work to try and distract herself . |
| 19 | He worked to revive her and eventually she recovered enough to be wrapped and put on the sledge . |
| 20 | Results of liver function tests remained entirely normal despite the delay in presentation , and she recovered rapidly with no sign of hepatocellular damage . |
| 21 | She argued passionately for better housing , education , and welfare services for the poor , and was a particularly strong advocate of the National Health Service , making herself an expert on mental health . |
| 22 | Well , he would n't , would he ? she argued fiercely with herself ; he thought he knew the type of girl she was . |
| 23 | She tumbled forward against him and her hair , escaping from the ribbon at the nape of her neck , made a tent for their faces . |
| 24 | She made straight for her favourite upstairs room , the kitchen . |
| 25 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 26 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 27 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 28 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 29 | Despite her upper-class background , she cared passionately about marriage and family life and her main theme was that the strength of the nation depended on strong moral precepts being taught in the home , and family life being firmly rooted in the Christian faith . |
| 30 | Oh , dear heavens , had Naylor , by seeing she was hurt , seen too that she cared deeply for him ? |