Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she read out excerpts from an article in the Times . |
| 2 | Constance was , at present , the most important person in her life , for it was to her that she read out items of interest in the newspaper , with her that she shared her doubts and prejudices and to her that she described her dreams . |
| 3 | In the breakfast room , wet ringletty hair dripping on the tablecloth , she read out headlines from the Galway papers that caught her fancy , and earned some dirty looks . |
| 4 | In addition to these outbursts of weeping with which she made up arrears and which followed close upon the fatal termination of the illness , the lady celebrated annual festivals of remembrance at the period of the various catastrophes . |
| 5 | I — ’ She bent her head , shaking it quickly as she fought off tears . |
| 6 | She fought back tears as she blamed Nicholas Vernage not just for her husband 's murder but also for the deaths of her parents . |
| 7 | These days she sought out excuses to be on her own . |
| 8 | She points out agencies must have licences and checks on practice are getting more stringent . |
| 9 | . And she 's going she got out papers and pencil ! |
| 10 | She bumped along furrows between vines , spattered cobalt-blue with spraying . |
| 11 | She woke up moments before you were going to put the box over her head.That is not so sir , was his reply . |
| 12 | Similarity with that other man who had tried to destroy her threatened to break down the shutter in her mind with which she blanked out memories of Friedrich . |
| 13 | She spelt out jokes by using the bell , and loved to be read to . |
| 14 | She gulped back tears and called to Oliver , ‘ Come on in , ca n't you ? |
| 15 | On another occasion she climbed over dustbins and went through the fire exit of a Knightsbridge store , while once she and Carolyn abandoned her car and jumped on a red double decker bus to evade photographers . |
| 16 | Pulling off her bright headscarf , tossing off her jacket , she threw off apologies at the same time . |
| 17 | " Yes , she turned up trumps , I 'll say that for her . " |
| 18 | On Sunday at 11pm , Mrs Biky 's basement cavern was still humming with the sound of her sewing machine as she turned out ladies ' dresses and blouses . |
| 19 | THE Duchess of York yesterday left cancer-stricken Polish children lost for words when she handed out copies of her Budgie books in English . |
| 20 | She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners . |
| 21 | She cut out things like cakes and biscuits ( well , no one says dieting is easy ) and used sugar-free jellies and tinned fruit in natural juice when she wanted something sweet . |
| 22 | At our interview at the Royal Overseas League she was about to leave for a pit-stop author 's tour , with an immensely heavy bag containing a laptop computer on which she fires off requests and thank-you letters : to American Secretary of State James Baker for his introduction to President Mobutu , to the King of Spain for agreeing to host a fundraising dinner for a chimp sanctuary in Spain . |
| 23 | She pores over time-tables : bus , rail , ship and plane , and travels her secret world in cookery-books . |
| 24 | Highly ambitious and competitive , she takes on responsibilities and makes decisions in a conceptual and intellectual manner . |
| 25 | She knocked down walls and when a young woman asked her to stop , she reached back and slugged her . ’ |
| 26 | She worked out sums on her way to school and in the bath and before she went to sleep . |
| 27 | She pulled out chunks of her hair . |
| 28 | She picks up tones and drifts rather than actual words . |
| 29 | She blinked back tears fiercely . |
| 30 | I learnt a lot about her and saw her side of why she took up illnesses as a comfort . ’ |