Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This she continued to do into the thirties . |
| 2 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 3 | At thirteen she felt trapped by the system of growing into a woman , which seemed to be separating them , and longed more than ever to be his son . |
| 4 | It was a four-poster bed , like the one in the guest-room — that much she had realised during the night — but the room itself was bigger , with a balcony beyond double french doors with pots of geraniums on it . |
| 5 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |
| 6 | Unaccompanied she began to sing in the local language . |
| 7 | She was hungry and sorry she 'd turned off the radio . |
| 8 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 9 | Agnes began to explain what little she had gleaned from the meeting . |
| 10 | At every opening in the trees , across every glade , and beside every hidden pool , Marian looked to see that glint of white she had seen from the Ridgery ; it was never far from her mind . |
| 11 | She said she was sure she had rung at the worst possible moment — she always rang important people at the worst possible moment . |
| 12 | When she was 18 she went to study at the Royal School of Needlework , where she not only learnt how to identify and date historical embroidery , but also became a prize-winning practitioner . |
| 13 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
| 14 | Some were recognisably of those she had seen through the windows . |
| 15 | The details recalled by Carol during the regression ( and which she continued to remember afterwards ) tallied precisely with those she had given to the police on the night the rape had occurred . |
| 16 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 17 | He glanced at her , wondering if this were the first she had heard of the proposal . |
| 18 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |
| 19 | Since the autumn of 1990 she had served on the board where she co-ordinated the work of Treuhand 's 15 regional offices . |