Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 2 | Either she was losing her mind , or she 'd followed the wrong man . |
| 3 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 4 | Although she had rejected the Almighty , Mother Benedicta had asked her to attend Mass . |
| 5 | Although she had made the best of resolutions not to be drawn into talking about her own times , she found it hard to resist Johnny 's persistent questioning . |
| 6 | Semi-finalist at her first attempt at the age of 14 in 1990 , Capriati has largely flattered to deceive since and has yet to reach a Grand Slam final although she did capture the Olympic gold last year . |
| 7 | But the Prime Minister 's dominant recognition of the Labour threat was underscored by the fact that she chose to avoid the contentious issues of water and electricity privatisation , poll tax , the trade deficit , the European Community , and the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 8 | The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing . |
| 9 | When Liz 's twin baby girls were born Laura was convinced that she had done the right thing in keeping the full extent of her father 's illness and the subsequent disastrous financial mess from her cousin . |
| 10 | People marvelled at the way Lilly Foley ran such an elegant home when she had five rugby-playing lads to deal with , and marvelled even more that she had kept the handsome John Foley at her side . |
| 11 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 12 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 13 | Again she knew at once that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 14 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 15 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 16 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 17 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 18 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 19 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 20 | He looked at Nell , and saw that she had reached the same conclusion . |
| 21 | Miss Tucker had made a statement to the police admitting that she had hit the alleged victim , Mr. Reiche , with a baseball bat . |
| 22 | She acknowledged that she had a bad temper but recently she had felt so angry that she had hit the younger child repeatedly around the head and shoulders , bruising him . |
| 23 | For a moment she regretted that she had forfeited the supreme triumph of thrusting the diary entries in front of his face . |
| 24 | I knew the police would think that she had killed the little boy . |
| 25 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 26 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 27 | Nine ladies dancing he decided perhaps that she had ordered the extra milk in case they got thirsty . |
| 28 | Carole 's first , irrational thought was that she had entered the wrong room . |
| 29 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 30 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |