Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
| 2 | He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man . |
| 3 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 4 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 5 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 6 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 7 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 8 | Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment . |
| 9 | She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time . |
| 10 | If she went on this way , you 'd be able to pick her up soon . |
| 11 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 13 | Because she lived against this woman . |
| 14 | She remembered the things she had said since she came into this house . |
| 15 | She was discharged home , apparently fit and well , and had five years of active , happy life before she died without much pain or distress from cancer . |
| 16 | And they grew when she told in another interview how she could live on prawns , salad and water , and found eating ‘ a drag ’ . |
| 17 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 18 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 19 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 20 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 21 | Noreen O'Neil looked good as she pranced across that stage to the catchy Irish tune . |
| 22 | Lance Percival was there to hear Ken look at Miss Sims as she arrived on that boundary between the action and the production . |
| 23 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 24 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |