Example sentences of "she [vb past] many " in BNC.

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1 With high topsides , an almost hard chine form and a sail wardrobe which consisted of just three sails from Lymington-based Pete Sanders — the main , a 0.75oz spinnaker and a 100 per cent overlapping jib — she met many of her owner 's requirements .
2 Winston Churchill stayed with her at Belvoir Castle and she entertained many friends with wide-ranging interests , among whom were many writers and artists .
3 She asked many questions about his travels , eager to know about all the places he had seen .
4 Thus she monitored many clients whose situation was felt to be unstable , and she negotiated widely for other services .
5 Now , more lightly bound and sitting more comfortably in what the doctors called ‘ Fowler 's position ’ , she found many reasons for indecision and delay .
6 Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept .
7 Her work is an allegorisation of art as fashion ; entering the world of fine art she found many parallels with the world of fashion .
8 Many London families went ‘ hopping ’ in the summer months ; Margaret Wynne Nevinson recalled that when working as a rent collector ( with Beatrice Webb ) for the Dwellings Improvement Company in the East End , she found many flats empty in August and September for this reason .
9 Just because she used many more words , he thought of her as a thinking type .
10 Leapor 's poetry makes clear that she suffered many distressing lectures from her father , yet if the poet and her father had reached an understanding , indeed , if they intended to use the money from the subscription to buy their freehold and have security for their life together , Landry 's interpretation of this episode is simply captious .
11 From then on she discovered many things about the human race , but could find no explanations for them .
12 She spent many evenings watching Jamie , whose scathingly political drag show was wowing the entire circuit .
13 Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP .
14 She spent many hours locked up alone in her cell .
15 She befriended many American abolitionists , including , during the World 's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 , American women delegates , such as Lucretia Mott , who were denied the floor of the convention .
16 She taught many microwave cookery schools and was consultant on food , appliance and product developments .
17 Tracey said she recruited many of her adult models by trooping the disco and nightclub circuit looking for the latest talent .
18 By constructing her life the way she did , she evaded many of the usual controls and sanctions that governed the lives of women , her obedience was given directly to God , and her claim was that only she could interpret that obedience .
19 She adapted many of her novels , including the first , for the stage , with mixed success .
20 But still , it must be better now than in 1990 , as she watched many of her titles slip away , one by one .
21 Algernon C. Swinburne [ q.v. ] , to whom she sent many of her books as they appeared , was one of her greatest admirers .
22 She presented many Phosphorus symptoms including the peculiar of desiring cold milk which she remembered craving during her childhood asthma .
23 She had many admirers .
24 She had many admirers , ’ the old mother said as they neared the house in a tone of puzzlement and of mourning .
25 Being well-off ( the wife of a restaurant owner ) , she had many beautiful saris .
26 It was n't easy ; as wife of the British Air Minister she had many official engagements to attend en route and needed a suitable wardrobe .
27 But as a child she had many times been wrested ( as it felt to her ) from her known environment into some strange place , leaving her totally confused .
28 Meanwhile she had many friends who took up her cause : memorial concerts were given in Prague and Vienna ; she received a gratuity from the Elector of Cologne ; and the King of Prussia offered to purchase several compositions for 100 ducats each ( including the Requiem which Constanze made sure was ‘ completed ’ by Süssmayr so that she could collect the last instalment of money due from Count Walsegg ) .
29 He denied forcing the teenager to go with him in a car and said she had many chances to leave him .
30 Could that have been love , real love ? she asked herself now , as she had many times before .
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