Example sentences of "she did [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally Ward was better able to comfort him than anyone else , yet it seemed to the family that she did little but simply hold his hand . |
| 2 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 3 | She did that quite often . |
| 4 | Yes , thought Philip , she did that all right . |
| 5 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
| 6 | Dorothy had ‘ not often felt more regret ’ than she did that day . |
| 7 | Pausing only for a brief tongue-twister — she did that very well , Karen , where your tongues circle each other tantalizingly , barely touching — we gave chase along the footpath which runs through the meadows bordering the river . |
| 8 | She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that . |
| 9 | BABY kidnapper Caren McSweeney is so stunned by what she did that she has been struck dumb . |
| 10 | But if she did that John would n't be able to let himself in with his key . |
| 11 | ‘ She did that all right ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Tell her what she did that makes us feel no love for her . |
| 13 | Only if she did that , all his effort would be wasted . |
| 14 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'd give you a hand with anything that needed doing , from packing , invoicing , cutting and laying to choosing and mixing colours ; she was n't keen on the administration side but she did that too , ’ Meirion recalled . |
| 16 | She did that , and more . |
| 17 | If she did that , she would be admitting that he still had the power to affect her , and she was n't going to do that ! |
| 18 | Glancing at him , she was tempted to tease him about the sugar he had borrowed earlier , but if she did that it would amount to a tacit admission that he was right about her behaviour . |
| 19 | She could go back to work , she supposed , only if she did that everyone would want to know why . |
| 20 | His voice sounded unbelievably distant , cold , and she was very tempted to ignore it , but if she did that he would come in anyway , she knew that , and she did after all want to talk to him , did n't she ? |
| 21 | But before she did that she would have to become famous at something else so that it would be extra sad when she renounced the world and went to work in a leper colony . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose she did that , ’ he conceded grudgingly . |
| 23 | And she did that , how many performances were you there ? |
| 24 | What happened when she did that ? |
| 25 | Do you agree with that would be rather dull she did that . |
| 26 | So she she did that and she did she was a midwife sometimes as well . |
| 27 | But that 's , you know , because she did that , because the time was blocked out in that way , I actually did it , and we wound up with , I now live in a , in a big , one roomed decorated house . |
| 28 | And like well I said to her I said well then Sandy would have put it down to the fact she did that bad in her ballet . |
| 29 | you know she said she was sort of level three plus when she did that |
| 30 | She did that thing . |