Example sentences of "[indef pn] she 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chauffeur , someone she 'd never seen before , brought the car to the front door . |
| 2 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 3 | I thought you were her lover , someone she 'd never told me about , and I was just knocked back by all the emotions I felt . |
| 4 | The rage burned a week , after which she fell totally silent for three days ; a silence broken by a grief like nothing she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 5 | It was like nothing she 'd ever experienced before : a sensuous hedonistic time of utter physical pleasure . |
| 6 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
| 7 | Everything she 'd ever wanted laid temptingly before her — only she had looked behind the scenes and knew the display was a hollow sham . |
| 8 | It was the unsettling effect he had on her , making her question everything she 'd always taken for granted . |
| 9 | It was n't something she 'd consciously considered before , just buried the memory along with all the others , but , thinking about it now , she knew he was right . |
| 10 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 11 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 12 | She knew about anal sex , but it was something she 'd never been asked to do . |
| 13 | It was something she 'd never done before , or dreamt of doing . |
| 14 | She 'd fought the sensation as long as she could and then she 'd done something she 'd never done before , she 'd deliberately looked into the sea of faces , looked unerringly to the rear of the crowded room … |
| 15 | She could n't take any man seriously — or at least not one she 'd yet met . |
| 16 | It had been a glimpse of Gentle , not so unlike the one she 'd just had , that had propelled her into her near-suicidal affair with him . |
| 17 | Her surviving spouse , the one she 'd obviously done everything to make sure he did n't get a penny . |
| 18 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 19 | She liked this man more than anyone she 'd ever met . |
| 20 | He was so close she could feel her own name as much as hear it , and she closed her eyes , gripped by a longing more powerful than anything she 'd ever known before . |
| 21 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 22 | Embarrassment more acute than anything she 'd ever known before rooted her to the spot as the sounds of laughter and applause rang out all around her . |
| 23 | Rory felt a sadness more poignant and piercing than anything she 'd ever known . |