Example sentences of "she [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I can stay here , ’ she whispered an entreaty . |
| 2 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not surprising she met an early grave , she 's smoked forty a day ever since I 've known her and that 's thirty years , ’ and , ‘ What do you expect , smoking all her life — God rest her soul , ’ are common judgements made by those left behind . |
| 4 | If she met an alien in Wandsworth High Street , she 'd be telling it the way to the supermarket and offering it free babysitting before you could say ‘ flying saucer ’ . |
| 5 | As her swing got better and better , so she revealed an attitude and inner calm which are not given to very many . |
| 6 | Her incentive to take up painting came after she read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Brigitte Bardot , and , in particular , a poem titled ‘ Complaint of an abandoned dog ’ . |
| 7 | Somewhat surprised approval from Mona , and she expected an explanation . |
| 8 | It seemed she expected an answer , so I gave it . |
| 9 | On the plane to London , Adam had said that Clare still refused to see her ; he had hinted that she expected an apology . |
| 10 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |
| 11 | She laid an arm around her mother 's shoulders . |
| 12 | She operated an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ , a phrase coined , ironically , by Lord Hailsham about the Labour government under Wilson . |
| 13 | Hamnett was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and went to St Martin 's School of Art to study fashion design in 1965 ; she made an indelible impression there . |
| 14 | She made an enormous difference in the house . |
| 15 | She made an angry sound . |
| 16 | It would be dreadful if one ran out while the children were present and she made an exhibition of herself by screaming ! |
| 17 | Then Brown Owl called to the Brownies who were left and made them lie with their heads pointing towards the swampland , then with the last two Brownies she made an arrowhead , like this : — |
| 18 | She made an awful job of it — ten times worse . |
| 19 | She made an inadequate attempt to neaten her cap , then fidgeted with her cuffs , keeping her back to her sister . |
| 20 | In 1962 she made an autumn visit to Greece . |
| 21 | She suddenly realised how tired she was , but she made an effort and told him that she was travelling to Rome to join her aunt and uncle . |
| 22 | In 1988 she made an offer to settle the tax liability , which was not accepted , and on 1 February 1991 the Inland Revenue Commissioners presented a bankruptcy petition which came before the registrar on 11 November 1991 . |
| 23 | She made an effort : ‘ David Willoughby , I think . ’ |
| 24 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 25 | She made an effort . |
| 26 | She made an offering of flowers and fruits , spurred pennants of scarlet heliconia from the rainforest , blue-blushed rue and sorrel vines with tendrils trailing , and laid it on the pit . |
| 27 | Nevertheless she made an attempt . |
| 28 | She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes . |
| 29 | She made an admirable chairman , able to cut through confusion and muddle . |
| 30 | Much against the queen 's will , Alice Keppel insisted on seeing the dying king ; on being asked to leave the death chamber , she made an embarrassing scene and had to be escorted out . |