Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 2 | By the end , by the end of the afternoon she 'd done it all . |
| 3 | It was the first real opportunity she had to study him unobserved . |
| 4 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 5 | But in truth she 'd found it difficult to sustain her patronising English mix of prurience and pity very long . |
| 6 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |
| 7 | All her life she had played it safe , done what others expected of her , hidden her emotions behind the stiff upper lip the Colonel was so fond of , played the straight bat he always wanted her to . |
| 8 | From some hidden vantage-point she had watched him that morning , while he rode away with the image of her in his mind and his — |
| 9 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 10 | That intolerable woman , she thought bitterly , had managed to become president of the Tollemarche Downtown Community Centre by a majority of a single vote , and Mrs Frizzell had had to be content with the vice-presidency , which office she declared gave her all the work and none of the authority . |