Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She delves unpleasantly within folds of rag and greasy hair . |
| 2 | If you tell anyone of what goes on , or call the police — anything — she goes up in flames . ’ |
| 3 | Her escorts pay when she goes out to restaurants or parties , so Pickles has n't the foggiest idea about money . |
| 4 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 5 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 6 | Now he stood facing her inside a remote Finnish forest while she gazed back with eyes like the Arctic ice . |
| 7 | She got on with children and dedicated herself to their wellbeing . |
| 8 | She got down on hands and knees to sweep away crumbs , and in the gaslight she looked paler than ever . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect Lubor is busy beavering away back in his office ? ’ she asked as a warm-up question before she got down to basics — and immediately wished that she had n't because at once Ven 's expression darkened , and as he raised an aristocratic eyebrow she knew instantly that all affability was gone . |
| 10 | Her most valuable contribution lay in the relationships she built up with delegates from all round the world . |
| 11 | She calls the photographs ‘ snapshots ’ , unpretentious statements of courage that she tried unsuccessfully for years to sell ( they sell well now ) . |
| 12 | Then she slumped back in her chair , mouthing the nicotine-dosed chewing gum she used instead of cigarettes , and I thought I must have imagined an intensity of which she was surely incapable . |
| 13 | She woke up on cobblestones , surrounded by a rich fog . |
| 14 | Anyway er she rooted about in drawers yesterday and er |
| 15 | She drove aimlessly for hours , stopping to fill the car with petrol , then carrying on , barely noticing where she was going . |
| 16 | She came through on weekends , the smirk of the city still upon her face , wearing opal rings always cool to the touch , and highly glossed lips of mauve . |
| 17 | Sue Everson says she came over in tears and could hardly speak but eventually said there was a body in the garden . |
| 18 | Six weeks after the acute she came along with headaches , anxiety , depression and low-grade digestive symptoms . |
| 19 | She came home with stories and imitations of her " ladies " . |
| 20 | ‘ She came home from Guides one day and said she wanted to try for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award , ’ recalls Rosemarie . |
| 21 | She came home in floods of tears , ‘ I 've got to be a nurse , I ca n't be an architect ’ . |
| 22 | Victorine was more often cross as she raced about with hoovers and dusters and brooms . |
| 23 | She constructs out of bits of stories heard on the radio elaborate dramatic scenarios which parody genres such as the thriller , the spy novel , and the popular romance . |
| 24 | As she commented angrily to friends later , she could not see why Charles needed these constant reminders of Camilla . |
| 25 | She hangs out with pye-dogs . |
| 26 | She 's always sticking piccys on the wall — you know , things she cuts out of mags and that . |
| 27 | ‘ Did she spend much on restaurants , on living well in general , on entertaining ? ’ |
| 28 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 29 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 30 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |