Example sentences of "she [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sucked in a steadying gulp of air , letting it go with little huffing sounds before she walked on and turned into the lane . |
| 2 | She sucked in a double-lungful of air and screamed , but not in pain . |
| 3 | She sucked in a deep breath then looked up , squeezing her eyelids tightly together as if to clear the fuzziness which clouded her vision . |
| 4 | Julie 's hand was shaking as she pushed the key into the ignition but she sucked in a deep breath and started the car , checking her rear-view mirror both for approaching traffic and , more particularly , for that Granada . |
| 5 | A board creaked beneath her feet and she sucked in a startled breath . |
| 6 | She sucked in a deep breath . |
| 7 | She sucked in a breath . |
| 8 | Her heart gave a strange flip inside her ribcage , and she sucked in a deep breath to steady herself . |
| 9 | She sucked in a huge breath , then let it out slowly again . |
| 10 | old lady — avid for a cigarette , ‘ She sucked in the smoke … like a baby having its bottle . ’ ; |
| 11 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 12 | As she filled in the forms for him , the girl in Despatch , big and black and at last a friendly face , told him she was from Mississippi , and sure as hell she hated Greeks , Athens , moussaka and retsina . |
| 13 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 14 | In the second column , she filled in the address Bridget had just given her — Cherry Cottage , Buckland Dinham , Somerset . |
| 15 | She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper . |
| 16 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 17 | ‘ Great stuff , Miranda , ’ the thin fair man would say , when she handed in the transcript . |
| 18 | One elderly juror , whose house had burned down eight months before North appeared , said she tuned in a little to the hearings as she tried to sort everything out , but ‘ it was just like I was focussing on ‘ The Three Stooges ’ or something . ’ |
| 19 | She breathed in the combination of scents they and other nameless varieties created , aware of the moths hovering above the blooms and the sound of small birds in the climbing shrubs against the wall . |
| 20 | She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him , looked at the slatted chairs , the pale greys , the yellows . |
| 21 | The more she saw of Alain 's mother and the more she breathed in the atmosphere of this house , the more she felt outside it all , an intruder who was here to rock the peace of the place , to alter their lives . |
| 22 | Going out on to Des Voeux , she breathed in the hot , humid air . |
| 23 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 24 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 25 | Acting on a hunch , she brought in a low-frequency recorder and found that infrasound was emanating from its forehead . |
| 26 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 27 | And a top money spinner will certainly be crime writer PD James , from Oxford … she brought in an enviable library . |
| 28 | One night she brought in the usual cocoa and watched while Dad removed a splinter from my palm Dad looked up and caught her grinning . |
| 29 | Patrick smiled at the woman as she brought in the tea . |
| 30 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |