Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What sort of information ? ’ she whispered over her open menu , fascinated yet uneasy at this glimpse into a world she had thought existed only in books or TV movies . |
| 2 | Oh , she goes up your school now with her little girl . |
| 3 | She flung open her macintosh and Stephanie saw that she was wearing a skin-tight black sweater , wide elastic belt , long grey pencil skirt . |
| 4 | Jumping up , she flung open her suitcase and rummaged for something to wear , standing up to step into brief white silk bikini-pants . |
| 5 | As she said ‘ Go ’ she flung up her right hand in an imperious gesture . |
| 6 | She flung up her head , rage blazing in her eyes . |
| 7 | She flung up her head , bright satin-smooth curls shaking . |
| 8 | ‘ That wo n't help , ’ a voice said gently as the back door slowly opened , and she flung up her head in shock . |
| 9 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |
| 10 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 11 | She flung back her head . |
| 12 | Maria 's breath came short and shallow now , perspiration sprang from her pores in an explosion of heat , and the driven sound of her reluctant pleasure and need could no longer be contained , escaping her in a low , shivering cry as she flung back her head . |
| 13 | Then she flung back her head and closed her eyes . |
| 14 | She flung out her hands . |
| 15 | Suddenly she flung out her hands towards the window and her face up so that the hood fell back from her head and the cloak streamed behind , held only by a brooch at her throat . |
| 16 | She flung out her hand involuntarily to touch his arm , then stopped , unsure of herself . |
| 17 | The queen of England did no come , but she met instead her husband , Prince Philip , and her daughter , Princess Anne . |
| 18 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 19 | References to Sir Thomas Hoby are , perhaps deceptively , formal , though Margaret was strong-minded enough to resist until 1632 his request that she make over her Hackness and other properties to him and his heirs . |
| 20 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 21 | By December 1917 Madame Weill had moved from her tiny shop on the Rue Victor-Masse , where she pinned up her pictures with clothes-pegs on an overhead wire like washing , to a more imposing venue , Galerie B. Weill , 50 Rue Taitbout in the 9th arrondissement . |
| 22 | She was in the middle of writing a report for the monthly meeting of the board of governors but she laid down her pen immediately . |
| 23 | As calmly as she could , she laid down her knife and turned a steady grey gaze on his face . |
| 24 | She laid down her rake and ran in to administer a good belt of a stick to whoever might be making little of her darling . |
| 25 | She laid down her teacup . |
| 26 | She laid down her cup and leaned towards him across the table . |
| 27 | She laid down her napkin . |
| 28 | She laid down her orange juice . |
| 29 | She laid down her glass before she dropped it . |
| 30 | She laid down her letters and stared blankly at the wall . |