Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She met me with a friendly smile , shook my hand and introduced me to the class : ‘ This is Wanda , our new pupil who has come to live in our village .
2 She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes .
3 Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ?
4 Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone .
5 Soon she aligned herself with a small group of women who wanted to break into publishing .
6 And if he decided that he did n't want a divorce ? she asked herself with a small shiver .
7 She passed him with a fractional quickening of her pace .
8 She was a scrawny red shorthorn with a woolly poll and she regarded me with a contemplative eye as I bent down .
9 She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me .
10 She dismissed it with a regal gesture .
11 She fixed me with a big smile and gave a flirtatious wink from behind her diamond encrusted specs and said : ‘ But I would be happy to invite YOU in Tony .
12 She fixed him with a glittering emerald stare .
13 She mimicked him with an Italian accent which always made him laugh .
14 ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile .
15 ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile .
16 ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile .
17 ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh .
18 ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile .
19 Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean .
20 She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh .
21 She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time .
22 Another time she cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer ; on yet another occasion , during a heated argument with Prince Charles , she picked up a penknife lying on his dressing table and cut her chest and her thighs .
23 She was not going to say or do anything that would make John Major 's task more difficult : the Cabinet , here she indicated them with a sinuous wave of her hand , was the most brilliant since Herbert Asquith 's and , as for Central Office , and she looked directly at Sir Charles , who was mopping his brow , they were good men and true who strove mightily in the interests of the Party , and for precious little reward .
24 While he bent over the cot , she watched him with a mischievous look ; after a little , she said she had a curious pain in her chest .
25 She quelled her with a brisk command .
26 ‘ No need to be shy , ’ she reassured him with a professional smile .
27 She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’
28 Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished .
29 She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now .
30 She knew it with a dragging certainty .
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