Example sentences of "[verb] she [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well she co and cor , do you know she 'd got beautiful nails ! |
| 2 | One knitter I know who found she 'd created this situation ( inadvertently , she admitted ) solved the problem by knitting epaulettes . |
| 3 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 4 | Jane Pargeter walked self-consciously to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea : she had obviously decided she had drunk enough gin for the afternoon . |
| 5 | Miss Vine 's budgerigar Beano died that night , and so did old Miss Trimm , a favourite teacher once in Dynmouth Primary , whose declining years had tricked her into believing she 'd mothered another son of God . |
| 6 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 7 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 8 | Mr Goldring claimed she had injected one baby with potassium . |
| 9 | Her sister would blame Claudia for tracking her down ; she would n't believe she 'd had little choice in the matter . |
| 10 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 11 | I know which , I know she got married last year . |
| 12 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 13 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 14 | But when they discovered she planned to marry fellow student Willie Armour , they gave the prize to a young man in the year below . |
| 15 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 16 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 17 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 18 | Ruthlessly quashing a ludicrous little niggle of jealousy , Rory frowned , wishing she had paid more attention to the text — she could recall its admiring tone , even if not the actual words . |
| 19 | Leading the way up to Terry 's room , fervently wishing she 'd left this madhouse when she 'd had the chance , Ellie stood back for Terry to enter first . |
| 20 | as if he 'd known she 'd spent all night wondering about the feel of his lips on hers , about how it would be if he kissed her . |
| 21 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 22 | Although Tamar responded with a laugh , she had a feeling of guilt , deep within , to think that her visits were so infrequent that her mother feared she had brought bad news . |
| 23 | As for Annie Murphy , whose life the Irish papers say has been threatened , if she returns , Mr Hudson felt she had showed great courage . |
| 24 | Molly felt she had lost all control of the situation and was only anxious to withdraw from it . |
| 25 | She felt she had found two friends . |
| 26 | She felt she had earned this amount of entertainment . |
| 27 | Theodora felt she 'd had enough surprises . |
| 28 | She knew she had visited heavy housework upon herself because of her attitude . |
| 29 | She knew she had drunk more wine than was wise . |
| 30 | She knew she had seen this man not just in the fog , but in the Rockingham public house . |