Example sentences of "she [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She tensed as she filled the kettle , and checked the fridge for something for dinner . |
| 32 | It had her dropping her aggressive stance immediately , and as he advanced she retreated until she felt the table hard and unyielding against her back . |
| 33 | She nodded and they left the house hand in hand and walked across the springy turf . |
| 34 | She sighed as she finished the letter . |
| 35 | ‘ So you managed to escape unscathed ! ’ she commented as she led the way up to her sitting-room . |
| 36 | She smiles as she meets the first customers of the day . |
| 37 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 38 | She was too well trained to take it out on Florence and she finished milking her , but she scowled as she lifted the heavy pails and carried them outside , lifting them into the water trough to cool . |
| 39 | ‘ Good God , ’ she breathed as she saw the state of him . |
| 40 | Straightening , she watched as he undid the holding gate , and then held out a hand towards her . |
| 41 | She watched as he crossed the meadow and felt the familiar jolt in the pit of her stomach as he came near . |
| 42 | She watched as he crossed the room . |
| 43 | Now she watched as he prepared the tools of his trade . |
| 44 | She watched as he adjusted the string of red coral beads through the shammy pouch that held his throwing-knife . |
| 45 | ‘ Your palazzo ? ’ she repeated as he slammed the car door after her . |
| 46 | After living rough for some time she decided that we offered the best chance of a home , and moved in Fizzy 's attitude is ambivalent . |
| 47 | It was clearly intended as a question about her personal life , and , after a short hesitation , she decided that he had the right to an answer , if she really was going to take the job — and she now suspected gloomily that she was . |
| 48 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |
| 49 | It was known at Cadogan 's that she had once fallen from a horse while out hunting and had broken her collarbone , but continued to follow the hounds for the rest of the day until she collapsed as they ran the fox to earth . |
| 50 | Groups or pairs of ladies , often sisters or cousins , ran hotels of the kind she required and they understood the necessity for quietness and a late-night pot of tea , for Egyptian cotton sheets and a hot water bottle and plenty of cushions , for sufficient pastries at the tea table and permission to have one 's own wireless set in the bedroom . |
| 51 | " You could order dinner , " she called as she kicked the bathroom door closed . |
| 52 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 53 | Merrill went straight up to her room , relieved to be alone and quiet at last , and as she undressed for bed she thought that she heard the door to Luke 's room open and close again . |
| 54 | And she thought as she crossed the threshold : He is still there . |
| 55 | Still , she thought as she closed the door of the trophy-room , it does n't give him the right to treat me like — She bit off the dreadful word that sprang to mind . |
| 56 | " I do n't know why I came , I ca n't possibly tell them , " she thought as she watched the tiny man , perched up high as he circled meticulously round about on his chosen futureless employment , shouting : " Wor'-oss , Wor'-oss " to the dogs that followed him , as faithfully as seagulls follow a plough , when he made one of his grand and speedy turns . |
| 57 | Funny thing , she thought as she turned the grubby pages , that people only seem to stop complaining when things get really bad . |
| 58 | She knew because she felt the same herself , the whole damn lot of it , down to the last small detail . |
| 59 | She shivered as she recalled the terrible blackness that had invaded her home and had clung to and coated the village on that night when she had heard the voices . |
| 60 | She shivered as she remembered the way they had seemed almost to change colour from darkest brown to angry almost-gold . |