Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through dazed , clouded eyes she gazed up at him , the taste of his kiss still tingling on her mouth , her heart beating an erratic tattoo within her breast . |
| 2 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 3 | Because she is doing what is clearly a test , the words she writes down in this list have no real context : she would probably not write in the course of a story " I heard a funny nose … " without recognising the error herself when she read it back . |
| 4 | And with these words she thumped off down the stairs , leaving me to collect my thoughts for the hard task of Testifying . |
| 5 | The barriers she broke down about women in business are numerous because she moved as an equal among commercial interests which were so much then , as now , dominated by men . |
| 6 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 7 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 8 | Running her tongue across her teeth she glared down at the object of her annoyance . |
| 9 | We successfully unhooked her and on the scales she came in at 13lb 4oz , not a monster cat , rather a kitten , but nevertheless a most satisfying experience ; at last a cat on the bank . |
| 10 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 11 | The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket . |
| 12 | After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel . |
| 13 | For a couple of minutes she gave in to another uncharacteristic fit of temper . |
| 14 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 15 | As they drew back up the stairs , piling on the pieces she threw up at them , Lawton sniffed . |
| 16 | Like a rabbit she ran across the course to intercept Anmer and as the horse was hugging the rails she stood up in front of him holding both her hands above her head , and then sprang at him . |
| 17 | Sister Act pairs Whoopi with another Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith in a tale of a nun on the run and the change of fortunes she brings about in the convent where she seeks sanctuary . |
| 18 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |
| 19 | Some of the things she comes out with I could tell you . |
| 20 | She 's always sticking piccys on the wall — you know , things she cuts out of mags and that . |
| 21 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 22 | When she got back to the lodgings she sat down in her room and opened the letter . |
| 23 | With a couple of tins in her arms she rolled through into the whirling darkness of the antarctic night and pegged the billowing plastic down with a handful of icy stones . |
| 24 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 25 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 26 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 27 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 28 | Finding herself in severe financial straits she went along to the appropriate authority to ask for money to buy food for her children . |
| 29 | Hanging on the door is a dressing gown and in the wardrobe a change of clothes given to her when she arrived in the refuge with only the clothes she stood up in and a shopping bag . |
| 30 | Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent . |