Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she said give me thirteen did n't she . |
| 2 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |
| 3 | Nevertheless she managed to eat it all up . |
| 4 | One day soon she intended to pay it all back , with interest . |
| 5 | Now she 'd made him angry again . |
| 6 | I blamed her and the fact she was a Jew for how she had used us all . |
| 7 | Sometimes she 'd found it difficult to believe a word he said , but he had been there to meet her when she 'd arrived as a stranger . |
| 8 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 9 | There she 'd found him alone — pretending to have forgotten it was Christmas — all the rest of the family having tactfully cried off . |
| 10 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 11 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 12 | She had to pay for the lavish colour brochure ( the details of which contained many mistakes ) , she provided the historical background and ran her feet off showing people over : all they did was make appointments ( underpaid girls did that ) and yet she had to pay them thousands . |