Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] she [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 2 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 3 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 4 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 5 | Basically erm well no she came in and she said something like oh he had his hand on Carrie 's knee . |
| 6 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 7 | I had mine in a cone , with wafers stuck in the top that I used to eat it with , but Cati sat down and she had hers with a spoon , out of a glass , sitting up on one of those stools … . ’ |
| 8 | They could n't avoid being seen together and she braced herself for the blast from Georg and from her parents . |
| 9 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 10 | I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing . |
| 11 | I was accustomed to a lonely bed long before she left me for someone else . ’ |
| 12 | I 've burnt half the food waiting for you , ’ Stephen snapped impatiently as she joined him by the smoking barbecue . |
| 13 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 14 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 15 | Not that she knew anything about washing . |
| 16 | ( Not that she had anything against Greenpeace . |
| 17 | Not that she had anything against him . |
| 18 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 19 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 20 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 21 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 22 | The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference . |
| 23 | Was this just because she saw herself as a Frieda Lawrence figure , or was there some firmer basis for it ? |
| 24 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
| 25 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 26 | He stood her back and looked : she stripped off his gown and , as he was there standing , he hoisted her up and held her easily as she straddled herself around him . |
| 27 | There it was , just as she remembered it from her childhood , further along the bank , down concrete steps , choked up now with tall , dark green nettles . |
| 28 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 29 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 30 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |