Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put me down , ’ she whispered through dry lips , and only after what seemed an eternity did he slowly lower her to one side . |
| 2 | Trust in God , ’ she whispered through bloodless lips , and Anne wept that even now her mother was trying to comfort her . |
| 3 | ‘ So … do you know my answer ? ’ she whispered at last on a shaky laugh , tightening her fingers round Roman 's hard forearm as he drew her closer against him . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , of course I will , ’ she whispered at last , her pulses racing idiotically fast . |
| 5 | ‘ Goodbye Arak , ’ she whispered with each of them . |
| 6 | She whispered with alliterative relish : |
| 7 | I once followed a pupil around for a whole day , and was impressed by the peculiar mixture she experienced of dislocated bits and pieces , and longer sessions where there were ‘ spaces ’ for her to enjoy and explore learning or — occasionally — to waste time in . |
| 8 | Susan Einzig can also recall the shock and anger she experienced on first seeing this picture . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I do n't hate it , ’ she admitted at last , in a low mutter . |
| 10 | ‘ She — er — she thought it would be nice for you to visit her , ’ she admitted at last . |
| 11 | ‘ Ian , ’ she admitted at last . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted at last . |
| 13 | ‘ The economic recovery has restored old fortunes far more significantly , ’ she admitted in this year 's State of the Nation address , ‘ than it has touched the lives of the vast majority of our people . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Be that as it may , ’ she hurried on , ‘ I would n't feel at home here , beautiful though it is , ’ she admitted in strangled tones . |
| 15 | Not that his tautly muscled frame showed any sign of laxity , she admitted in silent acknowledgement . |
| 16 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
| 17 | However , although she had an absolute majority of the MPs entitled to participate , she failed by four votes to register in addition the required 15 per cent margin ( 56 votes ) over Heseltine , and a second ballot was necessary . |
| 18 | It roused her violently by its unexpectedness , and she made no protest when his arms went round her and he kissed her with a force and a recklessness that she met with equal need . |
| 19 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
| 20 | But here , for once , she met with strong unexpected opposition . |
| 21 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 22 | They are an invaluable source for women 's health problems in this period , especially the ‘ dangerous perils ’ of childbirth , and movingly discuss the traumas of the early deaths of children , which she met with resigned submission to the will of God . |
| 23 | Her requirements were few , and she earned a meagre living as an artist 's model , most notably for Auguste Rodin , whom she met in 1904 , and for whose unfinished monument to Whistler she posed . |
| 24 | She sat facing me : calm , sympathetic , but at a distance I had no way of negotiating , as I listened dismayed to what she revealed of those islands , that lost continent . |
| 25 | Some of this Katherine gleaned dimly from the set of house rules she read through three times in a room distinguished only by orderly barrenness . |
| 26 | She read with great attention , few dues escaped her , and it was with a suppressed little scream of excitement and fear that this large , lonely girl would guess the murderer three or four chapters before the end . |
| 27 | She read with bright-eyed relish . |
| 28 | She read anything ; she read in all directions . |
| 29 | I do n't know , I ca n't remember whether she applied for that , I know Harold his daughter went up to Southampton and he was horrified at the accommodation she was staying in , up there |
| 30 | In the meantime she applied for other jobs too , but it was the one with G Vasey Ltd that she wanted . |