Example sentences of "she [verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met it with a puzzled look in her eyes . |
| 2 | Whatever the grandeur of the situation she transcends it with a sweet serenity which mesmerizes everyone . |
| 3 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 4 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 5 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 6 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 7 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |
| 8 | She handles it like a sophisticated traveller unthreatened by a new airport . |
| 9 | She imagined it as a tiny surge welling over a dam and splashing into a parched valley . |
| 10 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 11 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 12 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 13 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 14 | Searching round for where she 'd put her champagne glass , she discovered it on a wrought-iron table behind her . |
| 15 | She repeated it in a dull , polite way . |
| 16 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 17 | Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another . |
| 18 | It was so easy to flatter her , she took it like a sixteen year old wino 's never heard it before . |
| 19 | She had known this all along , but she knew it with a different knowledge now . |
| 20 | She knew it with a dragging certainty . |
| 21 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 22 | Everyone else seemed to be roused by the War , but she saw it as a giant emotional hoax . |
| 23 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 24 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 25 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 26 | She said it with a sly smile ; he had n't mentioned any of his own stay-behind training . |
| 27 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |
| 28 | ‘ We can but of course it wo n't be as easy for us to get away once Maggie is gone , ’ she said it in a pleasant way that sometimes humoured him and sometimes could put his teeth on edge . |
| 29 | She replaced it with a frustrated sigh . |
| 30 | She replaced it by a single candle . |