Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Leith took time off from being absolutely furious with Naylor Massingham and his high-handed behaviour , though , she experienced odd moments of wanting to tell him openly that she was not , and never had been , romantically interested in his cousin . |
| 2 | It shows the family size a woman would have if she experienced current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime . |
| 3 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 4 | A WOMAN was fined £231 with £30 costs yesterday after she admitted fraudulent use of a car tax disc . |
| 5 | She flung open the window , grabbed a tea-towel and hooked the red-hot rice pan off the burner . |
| 6 | She flung open the solid pine door , standing aside for Jane and Robert to enter . |
| 7 | She flung open the door of the Document Examination room and glanced inside . |
| 8 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
| 9 | But Harriet 's tears were eased at Bodelwyddan when she met Huggy Bear , the mascot of Clwyd 's Playsafe campaign . |
| 10 | Later she met other trainees . |
| 11 | She met political leaders in Bonn , walked through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin , met citizens in Leipzig , and attended a service of reconciliation in Dresden , which was destroyed by allied bombing on Feb. 13 , 1945 . |
| 12 | It was then that she met tall , blond , thin Gary and he did n't give a damn about her weight . |
| 13 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 14 | She read interior design magazines , browsed for hours in department stores comparing the textures and colours of fabrics . |
| 15 | She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy . |
| 16 | Kate stopped in her tracks as she applied red lipstick . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , he 'll perk up , Miss Vine , ’ Mrs Abigail said , mustering further cheerfulness as she emptied roast beef , potatoes , brussels sprouts and gravy on to a cold plate . |
| 18 | She lacked male company . |
| 19 | On the other hand , let it be supposed that she lacked ordinary competence and capacity . |
| 20 | Because she lacked academic qualifications , Miss Green never conducted a Tutorial Class , but she revelled in her Terminal and , less frequently , One-Year courses . |
| 21 | She was a powerful woman , trained in the arts of self-defence , but that was not to say that she lacked feminine charm . |
| 22 | She pinned old movie stills to the black beams so that the guests could play at guessing what they were from and gazed for too long at a film-still of Peter Finch and a male lover , pondering the nature of sexual passion . |
| 23 | She did n't turn round : she expected Ace to follow , and a few moments later she heard running footsteps behind her . |
| 24 | Because of her coalition-building skills , she led successful change projects that in turn brought her recognition and early promotions . |
| 25 | She cultivated lasting friendships through her correspondence , which mirrors the everyday circumstances in which the Lake poets worked , and she shared her brother 's widening circle of friends and visitors . |
| 26 | She smelled strange scents , and saw ‘ with her bodily eyes ’ small white things , as thick as specks in a sunbeam , which appeared at night as well as in the daytime . |
| 27 | She smelled strange , like no one he had ever met . |
| 28 | She smelled warm and sweet , Like a marshmallow . |
| 29 | Alone , she smelled other people 's coffee , other people 's cakes . |
| 30 | She smelled bilious breath and heard a voice mumbling : |