Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 2 | She laid everything in an untidy heap in the leather box . |
| 3 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 4 | Relieved of her professional role , she manifested herself as an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suddenly she found herself under an intense media spotlight , enduring a 24-hour guard until she was 16 . |
| 7 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 8 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 9 | She mimicked him with an Italian accent which always made him laugh . |
| 10 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 11 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to find the nearest policeman , ’ she informed him in an icy voice . |
| 13 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Tonight for the first time she saw him as an attractive young man rather than as a boss . |
| 16 | She saw herself as an unlikeable person . |
| 17 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 18 | Suspecting that her diarrhoea and wind might be due to Candida infection , she put her on an anti-Candida diet and a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
| 19 | She marched him in an exact 15 metre circle . |
| 20 | She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk . |
| 21 | When Suor Eusebia saw me she greeted me with an approving smile . |
| 22 | They parted at dawn but when he approached her later the same morning she froze him with an icy gaze and said , ‘ In the circle in which I move , sleeping with a man does not constitute an introduction . ’ |