Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She badly needed another drink but Maxim had n't finished his first yet . |
| 2 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 3 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
| 4 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 5 | She especially loved any opportunity to contradict those interviewers who assumed that , as the company which bore her name was so successful , she must be an ardent feminist . |
| 6 | Then she pointedly spent several minutes talking to him . |
| 7 | As a result , she unhappily munches more candy bars — and that 's how wise old-timer Ninny Threadgood finds her when Evelyn visits a relative at Ninny 's retirement home . |
| 8 | ‘ She obviously wants some help . |
| 9 | Dexter noticed his boss did not suggest Lancaster address her by her Christian name in return : she only encouraged such informality from the victims of crime rather than its possible perpetrators . |
| 10 | I mean this is basically she 's she already books some flats and house a house because self-catering accommodation 's in such short supply because of long lets over the winter . |
| 11 | She desperately needed some time alone to think . |
| 12 | She would have handed over to one of her colleagues , but somehow she just felt this case needed her personal attention . |
| 13 | She just loved that job . |
| 14 | She scarcely knew these women and told herself that she did n't wish to . |
| 15 | But she was being absurd , she scarcely knew this man and what was it to her who he was betrothed to ? |
| 16 | It was crazy , she scarcely knew this man , yet he seemed to have the power to throw all her normally perfectly well-adjusted emotions into turmoil . |
| 17 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
| 18 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 19 | And although the old woman 's premonition was an unhappy one and mention of Daniel caused her an immediate spear of pain , she nevertheless felt purged ; she always felt some elation after being in the company of the story-teller . |
| 20 | When his mother had told him , as she always told any man interested in Edith , about the bastard child , he had just smiled . |
| 21 | You say she always ringed that calendar , is that right ? |
| 22 | She always chose that moment to talk about Durkin , and always in a disparaging way . |
| 23 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 24 | She always had some piece of sewing stuck in her belt while she cooked . |
| 25 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 26 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 27 | She always carries these things with her . |
| 28 | ESSENTIAL BOOKS Lindsay Fraser from Heffers Children 's Bookshop in Cambridge makes sure she always has these titles in stock : . |
| 29 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 30 | She usually enjoyed this part of the year immensely , but for once she was feeling quite unprepared for it . |