Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 2 | Occasionally flicking back a stray blonde hair , Mrs Bottomley comes to the despatch box as if she has just leapt out of a hair spray advert . |
| 3 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 4 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 5 | She has never stepped out of line . |
| 6 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 7 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 8 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 9 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 10 | On hearing of the don 's disappearance , she 'd naturally rushed up to Oxford in the hope of tracking down her precious notes . |
| 11 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 12 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 13 | She 's allergic to alcohol , she ge she gets really pissed on like one , two glasses of wine . |
| 14 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
| 15 | She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures , crucifixes , statues and ornate candlesticks . |
| 16 | She felt rather put out at Elizabeth 's going off like that . |
| 17 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 18 | One she carried tightly rolled up in her hand ; the other she pinned inside her coat . |
| 19 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 20 | They had wanted each other from that first night , and now , in this dimly lit room , with Nicolo 's mouth on hers , with his hands on her breasts , she had finally run out of lies and excuses , not just for him but for herself . |
| 21 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 22 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 23 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 24 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
| 25 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 26 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
| 27 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 28 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 29 | But Main Line , an independent filmmaker , contended that it had reached an oral agreement with Basinger , a standard Hollywood handshake deal , and that she had later backed out of it . |
| 30 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |