Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she admitted it eventually broke through her defences . |
| 2 | And she found herself unwillingly waiting for Piers to return , watching the door , listening for the sound of the car . |
| 3 | She had already applied to a Physical Training College when a hip dislocation shattered her plans , and she found herself instead working for Prudential Assurance in Holborn for eight years . |
| 4 | Her first thought was to pick a young teenager 's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls , but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf . |
| 5 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 6 | She found herself half listening to his gossip , her mind drifting away to Piers and Nicole , wondering whether the day they were spending together had spilled over into night , and whether her husband suspected anything about what was between them . |
| 7 | She must have been driving more erratically than she thought for she found herself half skewed across the road . |
| 8 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 9 | She took herself in hand , the essay she told herself firmly had to be shelved : one step before the other . |
| 10 | She shook herself vigorously to throw off the fugginess in her head . |
| 11 | It had been delivered as she paid her daily visit to the Casa Guidi or otherwise would have languished at the post office , returned as unclaimed . |
| 12 | She wanted to weep at the pity of it all , then she opened them again to stare at him . |
| 13 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 14 | When his kiss only brushed her cheekbone , she pulled herself away to stare into doubt . |
| 15 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 16 | ‘ When will it start to show ? ’ she asked , loathing the woman ; but she knew nobody else to talk to . |
| 17 | She knew he often sat in the garden in the dark and listened to the sounds of the night . |
| 18 | She was just about to turn away from the window when she thought she saw something suddenly move in the far corner of the walled garden . |
| 19 | It was noted that she kept herself almost isolated from her own colleagues . |
| 20 | She had put a small fridge in his room and she kept it well stocked with milk . |
| 21 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 22 | She felt herself mysteriously attached to the whole of creation . |
| 23 | And whenever she bought it always had to be the best . |
| 24 | Whenever she did she never stayed for long . |
| 25 | By the end of the second day she had it firmly fixed in her head that Alain was simply ignoring the fact that she was here , and as this was his house she could n't make her mind up whether this was discourteous or a great relief . |
| 26 | Well to start off with she had it just trimmed at the neck . |
| 27 | I did n't know what stall , type of stall she had I just read about it in the paper |
| 28 | And thence to Halifax where they had entered the town in their thousands , led by the women , Sairellen had been pleased to hear , walking four and five abreast , empty-handed and bare-headed as she had herself once walked to York , singing the psalm she too had sung on that day . |
| 29 | She said they only look at the car 's registration number . |
| 30 | she said , I , she said she never spoke to me last week , for four days |