Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliet was n't really hungry , but she politely accepted a small slice . |
| 2 | A week had passed without the offer of one single outside ride ; she badly needed a winner . |
| 3 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 4 | Without conscious thought she instinctively placed a hand on his arm . |
| 5 | SHE RARELY ANSWERS A SERVICE CALL . |
| 6 | All she knew was that she presumably represented a new challenge . |
| 7 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 8 | On the other side of the room , an ancient dame was regarding Theda with a fixed stare while she slowly plied a fan before her face . |
| 9 | Eventually , she secretly engaged a local hermit to describe her plight to Ralph d'Escures [ q.v. ] , archbishop of Canterbury , and on hearing that he supported her case , she decided to escape . |
| 10 | She successfully sought a venue for the meeting at the university and then called a phone-in Irish radio chat show to recruit support . |
| 11 | Inelligible for the Enterprise Allowance Scheme , and at 28 too old for the Prince 's Trust , she eventually got a grant from the Westminster Enterprise Agency . |
| 12 | ( She eventually got a third-class honours degree . ) |
| 13 | She eventually articulated a philosophy which depended in large and explicit measure on repudiating what Conservatism had said about the role of the State for the past 30 years . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 15 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 16 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 17 | To her bewilderment , though , she suddenly experienced a most compelling feeling of not wanting to leave Mariánské Láznë next Tuesday ! |
| 18 | With many oy-oys and oy-gevalts ( cries of woe ) she suddenly raised a forefinger , and said : |
| 19 | But she also needed to come to terms with the topsy-turviness of her situation that , while she wanted to spend every moment she could with Ven , she suddenly felt a need to be alone ! |
| 20 | As she wandered slowly along , her eyes on the sluggish water , she suddenly spotted a heavy branch that looked to be oak . |
| 21 | Her gaze slid round the unfamiliar room , then she suddenly gave a loud groan as everything slid back into place . |
| 22 | Staring at him , she suddenly gave a sheepish smile . |
| 23 | She obviously had a flair for putting people in what suited them , not always true of designers . |
| 24 | So well she obviously needs a fag and a cup of tea before she |
| 25 | She fiercely ignored a small internal voice that warned her there was a fat chance of that coming to pass as far as he was concerned . |
| 26 | In that role she annually presented a miniature . |
| 27 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 28 | She merely had a dark and formless and terrible idea . |
| 29 | To others she merely looked a bit different , and it lent her glamour , but to him , she was as different as anyone who was n't black . |
| 30 | Nor can she merely learn a mechanical set of techniques . |