Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home in London she rarely bothered with such irrelevances ; here she knew it was expected of her and accordingly she had showered , dumped her travel-weary jeans into the laundry basket from which they would be rescued by a maid , washed , ironed and returned to her next day , and dressed herself in a loose silk jersey jacket and pants suit , simple and easy enough to please her yet enough of a transformation to satisfy her father and Sally . |
| 2 | In more or less timeless modern dress , the duel between the Christian knight Tancred and his former Saracen girlfriend Clorinda , she metaphorically encased in cap-a-pie armour is described by the narrator but enacted unseen behind a sofa . |
| 3 | She eventually died after 65 weeks of successful treatment , with severe cachexia and large bowel obstruction. at the end , her general condition was considered to be too poor to justify a defunctioning colostomy . |
| 4 | Tense with anger at first , she suddenly burst into scornful laughter . |
| 5 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 6 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 7 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 8 | Even her needlework , at which she constantly prodded during bumpy aeroplane journeys , was not really undertaken in order to produce a fine object but as an aid to entering another world of deep thought and reflection . |
| 9 | When she finally looked into clear water and saw her face , she wept bitterly as she greeted the old woman who stared back at her . |
| 10 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 11 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 12 | Thereafter she largely faded from public life , though she continued to befriend and correspond with many younger feminists . |
| 13 | She quickly looked from one clock to the other . |
| 14 | As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high , pointed hats and long sweeping gowns . |
| 15 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 16 | She managed to conceal the physical revulsion she always felt from close contact with this man . |
| 17 | I asked her if she always painted with such alacrity and her answer came as something of a relief , ‘ I like to enjoy painting , so ofttimes I paint much more slowly , it 's like eating , you do n't want to rush through a great meal ’ . |
| 18 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 19 | She always worked in good places , in the West End ; the hands she did were in Vogue once . |
| 20 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 21 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 22 | She may also be helped to understand that if she is willing to try to spread the love she once gave to one person around to others who may be badly in need of it , she will move into an entirely different dimension emotionally : one that will provide her with new satisfactions and in which she will discover that the lovers of this world are not only those who enjoy a close and exclusive relationship . |
| 23 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 24 | As she spoke , joy brightened her face , and the love she still felt for this man was alive in her every word . |
| 25 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 26 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
| 27 | She also suffered with abdominal bloating , headaches , irritability , depression and severe cravings for sweet foods . |
| 28 | When Val came to me , in October 1989 , she had arthritis in both her hands and feet , her shoulders and neck were in pain and she also suffered from chronic sciatica . |
| 29 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 30 | She also holed from 40 feet for a birdie at the short 17th , but it was Mason who preserved their lead . |