Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was she altogether satisfied with the box-office receipts for Caesar and Cleopatra . |
| 2 | Was she badly hurt ? |
| 3 | After the two men had shaken hands she thankfully escaped , leaving them to talk while she went out to prepare the treatment-room for the first of the morning 's patients . |
| 4 | All she knew was that she presumably represented a new challenge . |
| 5 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 6 | And then , since her father 's fatal heart attack eighteen months ago , no sooner had she slowly started to come to terms with his loss , to face the grief and despair at the thought of never seeing him again , than her mother 's letters and telephone calls had begun to fill her with stunned horror . |
| 7 | And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ? |
| 8 | Elise was , as she laughingly explained , between menfriends , and the conversation had got around to her hobby of car-rallying . |
| 9 | Bed was where she most longed to be . |
| 10 | I do know that my sister is in the hands of the only person who can perform this highly skilled operation , and that he is someone who saw fit to increase his patient 's fears at a time when she most needed reassurance . |
| 11 | There was a limit to what she could make out , given the angle and that she was trying to see the page upside-down , but what she saw was enough to confirm that this book , or perhaps its predecessor for the previous year , had the potential to tell her exactly what she most needed to know . |
| 12 | Her mother had died when she most needed help in her development , with all the problems of adolescence . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she swiftly apologised , when she could see he could n't make head or tail of what she was talking about . |
| 14 | What is she so frightened of ? ’ |
| 15 | Mrs Gaskell , when living in Manchester , need never have set foot ( had she so chosen ) in the slums of Miles Platting and Ancoats with their crowded courts . |
| 16 | The story leads us to ask questions like ‘ Why was she so displeased by her own life ? ’ , |
| 17 | Or perhaps he was n't being considerate , she suddenly realised with a pang — perhaps he had n't made a move simply because he was n't in the least attracted to her . |
| 18 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 19 | It was a charge she fiercely denied . |
| 20 | But the handing over of the letter was not something she necessarily expected , it was simply something she saw . |
| 21 | Had she merely stated that she did not wish to have a baby , she would have been considered failing in what she saw as her role in life . |
| 22 | She 's seventy and she only stopped hunting last season because she 's got arthritis in her wrist . |
| 23 | Luckily , Avril 's course work had been so good she only had to finish her dissertation to pass — which she did . |
| 24 | At San Vicente Hospital , when I went to give birth , I met a young woman who had been coerced and she only had three children . |
| 25 | No , because she had , she only needed a teenager left , she done the fifty to sixty age group |
| 26 | Once , in a fit of temper , he had told her she only started doing it after they were married . |
| 27 | Had she only responded because she 'd needed to be loved ? |
| 28 | His mother-in-law ran the shop , such as it was , for she only sold soft drinks , firewood and her speciality — home made whiting balls . |
| 29 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't that the dress is awful , ’ she finally pronounced . |