Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] she [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | She imagined it might settle down if she removed her brassière , but what if Dotty noticed and made some personal remark about her growth ? |
2 | The big bag they had brought for the goose caught between her legs and almost threw her down but she recovered her balance , her feet slipping and sliding . |
3 | Miss Coltman said Paula told her Sandra was due to move in but she put her foot down . |
4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
5 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
6 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
7 | She took a deep breath , was about to go in when she heard her name . |
8 | I done it on Jame and Michael and and you know the part where she pulls him over and she flicks her leg back so he flies |
9 | She was shaking all over but she held her ground . |
10 | From time to time her voice trailed off and she became her grief , heavy as a stone . |
11 | I forgot to close the deck hatch when the squall — ’ Her voice tailed off and she moved her shoulders briefly . |
12 | She patted him on the shoulder and he drove off as she plumbed her bag for a ring of keys which would n't have looked out of place at Balmoral . |
13 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
14 | She stared in anger at the old man 's face , at his eyes which goggled anxiously at hers , then roved off when she met his look , his lips which caved in on his gums and mumbled and tightened as though he was always eating . |
15 | she started playing , she just playing up cos she banged her head at Tracy 's . |
16 | His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts . |
17 | Reid picked her up and she put her face into the hollow of his shoulder , both arms fast about his neck . |
18 | Heather Boxer says she makes them do the washing up and she enjoys their company . |
19 | I sat up and she withdrew her hand . |
20 | Mary 's father was frosty with her because she did n't have an abortion , right up until she brought her son back from the hospital . |
21 | Susan had looked up as she felt his glance and had smiled towards him before moving to the group by the window . |
22 | Sharon 's face lights up as she hears his admission of love . |
23 | A woman , intensely reading a magazine in the corner , gave him a quick thumbs up as she caught his gaze . |
24 | She only glanced up when she felt his shadow fall across her . |
25 | He lay back and she stretched her body over his , leaning to his mouth and parting his lips with her tongue . |
26 | Louise cried out as she felt her body tumbling down into the blackness . |
27 | And then she went for him , her voice trembling , her eyes staring with sudden hate , all the Latin in her coming out as she ripped his hand from her shoulder . |
28 | With a sob she drew her mouth from his and cried out as she threw her head back . |
29 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
30 | ‘ Your nephew asked me if I was the one you were going to marry , ’ she blurted out as she averted her eyes from the probing intentness of his . |