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Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She delves unpleasantly within folds of rag and greasy hair .
2	She whispered softly into his ear , ‘ Do you see the lake from here ? ’
3	‘ Go to hell ! ’ she whispered bitterly against his mouth , and when he refused to stop she bit hard into his lower lip .
4	‘ I should have known , ’ she whispered fiercely to herself .
5	‘ Well , old fellow in the cellarage , ’ she whispered lightly to herself , though the breath was shallow in her throat , ‘ it seems I must speak with you at last . ’
6	But her action was only momentary , and , ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she whispered almost at once .
7	Day by day , hour by hour she goes deeper into depression until finally she exclaims
8	But whereas Eleanor Bowen once used drawing as a means of recording for posterity what was immediately in front of her eyes , I am thinking in particular of those powerfully smudged charcoal drawings of the interior of Darlington Railway Station nowadays she goes far beyond this to evoke the feelings of considerable ill and unease .
9	That , that 's what she goes there for .
10	She 's back in the canteen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. , when she goes home to the children and her working day starts its next shift .
11	She will twist your poor rich senile arm to pay you out , because you have an airy house on the hill , and she goes home to a room in the damp and humid valley .
12	Her best is about the reaction to her public appearances : Every time Margi is on the television , she claims , she goes home to be pursued by her mother with buckets of holy water .
13	Erm and then , of course , in the end she belongs entirely to Rochester .
14	2 She turns quickly on the balls of her feet to meet the advance .
15	‘ Yes , ’ she admitted slowly at last , ‘ I suppose I was shocked … the truth was very different from what I 'd imagined . ’
16	Not , she admitted truthfully to herself , that she had really wanted to .
17	Her eyes glittered , and , mouth twisting , she flung away from him .
18	The men were bowled over , and Topaz received many gilts of flowers , sweetmeats , and other trifles and a shower of love poems which she read aloud to Oswin as they rocked with laughter .
19	Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes .
20	Unfolding it she read aloud in a clear voice , ‘ The Veteran . ’
21	‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone .
22	I see it happen but wait , hoping that as usual she will jump out from it , but it just gets worse and she slows almost to a stop .
23	Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card .
24	He lifted his hand to her face , tracing the line of her cheekbones with one exquisitely gentle finger , and she quivered helplessly beneath his touch .
25	She lunged forward at him , striking her talons on the bars where his face might have been and crashing her beak thunderously down .
26	Then she plunged forward with both hands , took fast hold of the thick tweed jacket , and dragged the inert body out of the river .
27	She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought .
28	She plunged deeply into work to try and distract herself .
29	He worked to revive her and eventually she recovered enough to be wrapped and put on the sledge .
30	Results of liver function tests remained entirely normal despite the delay in presentation , and she recovered rapidly with no sign of hepatocellular damage .