Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 2 | Since Friday she had met many people who had every reason to be relieved , but Ayling had come closest to saying he was glad . |
| 3 | 3 The subjects she shot included mountainous scenery , wildlife and Canadian Indians — who did n't take very kindly to her intrusions . |
| 4 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 5 | In a fit of crazy violence she began to run one arm backwards and forwards on the rusty metal until it began to bleed . |
| 6 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 7 | The linnet she had chosen stopped trilling and sat on the bottom of the wicker cage , its little brown body huddled unhappily beneath the perch . |
| 8 | During her tour of duty in England she had killed two men without any risk of being apprehended . |
| 9 | and and she said something about through her interest in North American Indians she 'd written this novel . |
| 10 | SHATTERED kidnap mum Kerry Needham wept bitter tears of disappointment as she first laid eyes on the child she had raced 2,000 miles to see . |
| 11 | The schoolgirl told her parents she had stopped three nights in a bed and breakfast , spending the day on the beaches and on the piers , before her money ran out . |
| 12 | By marrying John Carrow she had forfeited any claim she might otherwise have tried to make . |
| 13 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 14 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 15 | In twenty-four hours she had aged ten years . |
| 16 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 17 | It was the first bit of luck she had had all afternoon . |
| 18 | And when she came home she said , Do you know what she said she must have taken ages she said to put that cord through that er beam , she said . |
| 19 | Within two days she had found some information on the Prince 's Trust , which is a scheme set up by the Duke of Cornwall , HRH Prince Charles himself . |
| 20 | At one board meeting she proposed introducing padded coat hangers ‘ but that was never going to turn our fortunes ’ , according to John James . |
| 21 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 22 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 23 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |
| 24 | It was the first remark she had volunteered all evening . |
| 25 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
| 26 | Such things she had heard this day ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm ambitious , too , ’ she said confidingly , thinking of the crèche she wanted to own one day . |
| 28 | Although the US may never have been on the brink of intervention in China she had sent 50,000 marines to Northern China in 1945 , followed by General Marshall acting as Truman 's personal representative . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember that but I know she , she 'd been to the families either side , Mrs she 'd got one son and two daughters and there and what have you , and then at the end house furthest from the lock was a family named they got two lads and oh she only used to charge half a crown . |
| 30 | The place was too full of memories ; like the day she 'd discovered most kids had mothers , not just a Bran . |