Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 2 | They were even more agog during the much publicized Banana Dance when she danced with only a curtain of bananas round her waist . |
| 3 | We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised . |
| 4 | She landed with barely a sound . |
| 5 | She hesitated for barely a moment before nodding her head in affirmation . |
| 6 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 7 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 8 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |