Example sentences of "and she [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round .
2 His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response , but surprisingly it did n't come .
3 His body stiffened ; there was a change in him , Robyn felt it , knew it and then he drew back and she saw in a fleeting moment his own look of self-disgust .
4 And she looked for a way out , though she knew there was none .
5 But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people .
6 Martha 's face was now flushed and she looked on the verge of tears .
7 The returning colour drained out of her face again , and she looked on the point of collapse .
8 At first she could meet his eyes , but what she saw confused her and she looked at the floor , colour creeping into her cheeks , reacting against the tenderness surprised in herself with a sense of shock that made her brusque and suspicious .
9 Of a sudden Aggie rose from the table and left the room , and the smile slid slowly from Millie 's face and she looked at the funny young man , as she thought of him , and said , ‘ Is she vexed ? ’
10 They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg .
11 And I handed over my day timing , now bear in mind this is all in pencil , and she looked at the schedule for May and said you 're not real busy this month , you know , you can take some time off .
12 As she wandered out onto the balcony there was very little breeze , and she looked over the tops of the royal palms towards a calm , softly undulating sea .
13 She went into the dining-room , where the tea was set , and she looked over the table as if there she would find something missing .
14 Her hair was dressed in a pyramid of fat ringlets and she looked like a Restoration wench , maid to Millamant , scene stealer , fit to be kissed in corners .
15 She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation .
16 She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way .
17 The Dolphin was commanded by Captain Samuel Wallis , who also had the Prince Frederick and the Swallow ( Captain Carteret ) under his orders , and she sailed round the world by way of the Straits of Magellan , Tahiti , Java , the Cape of Good Hope , and St Helena , leaving Plymouth on 19 August 1766 and anchoring in the Downs on 20 May 1768 , paying off in June .
18 His dark brown eyes met hers , and she flinched at the ruthlessness that blazed from them .
19 ‘ Well , ’ and she flinched at the cutting acidity in his voice , ‘ I never thought I 'd see the day when a woman could fool me , but you managed pretty well .
20 Then , years later — and she takes after the tall side of the family — she said , ‘ Now I am creature great , and you are creature small . ’
21 But her legs shook and she clutched at the bed , which seemed to recede and there was a strange , fizzing sensation in her head .
22 Her ankle gave under her and she clutched at the fridge for support .
23 She understood his grief and his sense of loss and loneliness — she had been there herself , after the King 's death — and she knew about the feelings of despair and the long , long time the scars would take to heal , but she also knew about the importance of carrying on .
24 She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne .
25 So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so
26 For the first time in her life Horatia was terrified of Rossmayne There was insanity in his eyes , and she knew without a doubt that at that moment he wanted to murder her .
27 Her body was alive , throbbing with pulses she never knew she had , and as she jerked her face away from his she knew he had once again defeated her , outclassed her , and she knew without a doubt that he was right : if there was ever a real fight between her and Damian Flint , he would take supremacy , she would be overpowered by the fierce excitement burning in her now , and he would walk away with victory on a scale she did not dare imagine .
28 But she had said nothing , and she knew from the look on his face that he was thinking she was still bearing a grudge from the incident in the storeroom the previous night .
29 She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away .
30 Halfway there and she felt like a break .
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