Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beg at Duart gate to be let in , where she had ruled till two hours ago ? |
| 2 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 3 | Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years . |
| 4 | MORAG MACDONALD Company secretary at the Post Office , where she has worked for 22 years . |
| 5 | No visitor can claim to have had a totally Swiss experience until he or she has travelled on one of the many cogwheel railways that whisk the traveller from ground level to the heights . |
| 6 | When she got back to the bench she saw that she had knocked over one of the shopping bags when she had stood up and a carton of eggs had dropped to the ground . |
| 7 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 8 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 9 | And she 's paid for eleven hours . |
| 10 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 11 | But she had woken with one of her banging headaches , so that was that . |
| 12 | He wore his clothes so well , she thought , looking at him ; not a bother on him , while she had tried on three different dresses before choosing one in desperation . |
| 13 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 14 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 15 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |
| 16 | As soon as she 'd got over one pregnancy she was in it again was n't she ? |