Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 2 | But she turned up safe and well at dawn when she walked into a mobile police station just yards away . |
| 3 | PAMELA COUNTESS OF ONSLOW , who has died aged 76 , became a celebrity in 1973 when she emerged as a key figure in the ‘ Littlejohn Affair ’ — one of the more curious spy stories of recent years . |
| 4 | In 1852 he moved with his mother to Sheffield , where she died after a few months . |
| 5 | An hour later , Buzz hailed a taxi and returned to Eastbourne , where she booked into a modest residential hotel recommended by the taxi driver . |
| 6 | ‘ Gee , ’ Charity Marlowe responded drily from where she sat in a decrepit upholstered chair , her head thrown back , her hair hidden under a towel , and her eyes clenched tightly shut . |