Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature . |
| 2 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 3 | As usual she planned to shut it all out , and let Christine take over . |
| 4 | She rose to meet her future self . |
| 5 | She was still telling herself she should not be put out by a kiss from a youngster who did not realize what he was doing , and she tried to nod her golden head with an appropriate display of adult wisdom , as she said : ‘ Yes , you 're wasting your time . |
| 6 | ‘ Why , Gina ? ’ he prompted again softly as she tried to arrange her jumbled thoughts to give a reason without betraying how deeply hurt she felt . |
| 7 | Driven into a corner , she panicked , her arms flailing desperately as she tried to wrench herself free , but he held on tight . |
| 8 | Infuriated by his arrogance , she tried to wrench herself free , but he was ready for her , holding her with no visible effort . |
| 9 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 10 | As she talked , she tried smoothing her crumpled lilac gown , then retying the fichu round her shoulders , succeeding in neither . |
| 11 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 12 | She tried to hold it steady . |
| 13 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 14 | While he went to get her a glass of freshly squeezed lemon and lime juice she tried to resent his patronising amusement , but failed to summon up enough ill-feeling to do so . |
| 15 | She tried to keep her blurred eyes focused on the sky . |
| 16 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 17 | With every letter she tried to top her last efforts and woo him with wit . |
| 18 | She tried to make it sound casual but was aware that her tone had risen slightly . |
| 19 | She tried to recall what twentieth-century German she knew , but was too rusty , and realized quickly that she would never be able to translate the labels on her own . |
| 20 | She tried to mask her true feelings from her mother and sister , but her throat ached with tension and she felt desperate for some action to be taken , to try to search for him . |
| 21 | Staring up at him , she tried to read his own feelings in his eyes and could n't . |
| 22 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 23 | Even as she recognised the skill behind the caress , she was jolted by a dart of sheer untrammelled longing deep within her , and , hard as she tried to fight her own traitorous desires , she knew she was lost . |
| 24 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 25 | She tried to shake herself free of his grasp but his hold tightened . |
| 26 | She tried to strangle her three-month-old daughter and then her lover arrived to finish the evil deed . |
| 27 | He slumped to the floor and she tried to drag him clear . |
| 28 | She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue , pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever . |
| 29 | The Baronessa looked more solemn than she had when she described shooting her German officer . |
| 30 | As Carolyn got better , she stopped hearing her other story . |