Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 2 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 3 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 4 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 5 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 6 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |
| 7 | It suggests that a human being could in theory obtain all the food he or she needed from a well-tended patio ! |
| 8 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 9 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 10 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 11 | During the holiday her arm felt so lifeless that she went to a local Swiss hospital for an X-ray . |
| 12 | Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time . |
| 13 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 14 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 15 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 16 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 17 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 18 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 19 | It was not every night , she reflected , that she dined with a secret agent . |
| 20 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 21 | No sooner had she said it than she burst into a dry hard sobbing . |
| 22 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 23 | Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job . |
| 24 | Rachel was n't expecting her family to arrive until late morning so she decided on a quick visit to the occupational health centre to see if by any remote chance David might be there . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 26 | Laying her basket down , she ran towards the shriek , her feet slipping on the loose ground as she came under the trees , until she finished with an uncontrollable slide that landed her almost on top of Oz . |
| 27 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 28 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 29 | Retreating until she bumped into a Spanish walnut table that stood before a window , she put her arms back to lean on the table , then decided that her position might look inviting , folded her arms , and scowled at Sam . |
| 30 | The sight of her body , poised above him as she stretched and leaned , distracted him , and he stood to watch her , until she turned with a questioning half-smile to hand down another bundle . |