Example sentences of "[conj] she [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb .
2 Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip .
3 The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable .
4 Journalists treated her with such awe and respect that she soon thrived on interviews , developed her eccentricities and refined the mythical aspect of the success .
5 This Airacomet is significant to the Museum in that she actually flew from March while assigned to the 420th Base Unit , Continental Air Command , during that Unit 's posting to March Field in late 1945 .
6 Yvonne could n't find the fish brooch that she always wore for funerals .
7 Harriet pushed back the cuff of her ski jacket and glanced at her watch — the clear faced leather-strapped Patek Philippe man 's watch that she always wore in preference to the elegant Cartier her father had given her , unless of course circumstances forced her into an evening gown .
8 In December nineteen eighty seven she was transferred from intensive care to a main ward , but it was not until February nineteen eighty eight that she fully emerged from coma .
9 My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew .
10 That she still believed in Allah and prayed regularly at the nearby mosque .
11 There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway .
12 She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions .
13 What is clear is that she rapidly took in hand the Communist Party cells in the various academic bodies to which she was attached .
14 But the tumour continued to grow and she finally opted for surgery and chemotherapy .
15 Jenny , , she 's worked for Express for three and half months , and she previously worked for A N C , er , on their pallet service in Sheffield and South Yorkshire area .
16 His relations with her were formal and wary , and she clearly looked on painters as a necessary evil for her husband 's livelihood .
17 And she even dropped from time to time the odd and flattering hint about the unique nature of her interest .
18 Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for .
19 They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America .
20 It was a genuine emergency — the nurse from the village had put the patient on a couch in the examining-room , and she quickly explained in Spanish what had happened .
21 And she promptly burst into tears , throwing her soiled apron over her head to hide .
22 A few months later Prieur became pregnant and she too returned to France .
23 There was a definite query on the first word , and she half smiled in return .
24 Enya 's grandparents are buried there , and she often talked to Roma about her feelings that her grandparents watched over her and guided her still .
25 ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances .
26 Her head broke the surface and she gratefully gulped in air .
27 Ever since she had come to Norfolk the skies had been grey , and she suddenly longed for warmth .
28 She did n't mean to , but she finally came to terms with the lateness of the hour with a yawn ; it was already happening before she could stop it .
29 ‘ Ca n't or wo n't ? ’ he queried grimly , but she just shrugged in defeat .
30 I really had thought she would go berserk , but she just trembled from head to toe , and was only calmed slightly by the sound of my voice .
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