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Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes .
2	Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’
3	She toyed briefly with a picture of Luke lying , bound and kidnapped , in some distant , cut-off retreat , but it did n't ring true .
4	She sought desperately for an answer , but could find none .
5	Ianthe was not the type to pour herself a glass of sherry or gin as soon as she got home after a day 's work , nor yet to make a cup of tea .
6	‘ Are you Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables ? ’ she asked excitedly in a high , sweet voice .
7	She reported sternly to a meeting of the management team that word-of-mouth recruitment might be taking place .
8	She shouted defiantly for a second , tears forming in her eyes , tears of terror and relief .
9	She sucked sweetly for a while , her busy tongue teasing at the shaft with exquisite enthusiasm .
10	Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community .
11	Even though she moved freely in a world that had its dark and sordid side , she had stayed clean , too innately fastidious to be even faintly tempted .
12	As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face .
13	Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back .
14	She went into the empty staff-room and helping herself to a cup of coffee , she sank wearily into a chair .
15	She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek , and jerked her hand away from her face .
16	She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s .
17	In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters .
18	She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face , coming to rest on her mouth .
19	She gestured vaguely with a finger , and a weary muttering issued from the pallid lips .
20	She exhaled suddenly with a strained laugh .
21	She came here as a guest , then offered a helping hand in an emergency . ’
22	He closed his legs and she came smoothly into a nice even gallop .
23	Evenings she came home to a stack of manila envelopes with folded papers lettered in scarlet and black .
24	The friend was erm pushing her , and she came home with a big bump on her head
25	Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ .
26	Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ .
27	‘ Well , they 're talking about it , ’ my mother said , dipping her head towards the table and holding her Paisley-pattern scarf to her throat as she nibbled tentatively at a large cream cake .
28	She seemed almost like a god to them .
29	She communicated instead with a small group of trusties like Lord Young , and advisers within her policy unit .
30	But she replied only with a slight inclination , and then turned for Conchis to take off her wrap , which he placed over the back of his own chair .