Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 2 | In a fit of crazy violence she began to run one arm backwards and forwards on the rusty metal until it began to bleed . |
| 3 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 4 | The linnet she had chosen stopped trilling and sat on the bottom of the wicker cage , its little brown body huddled unhappily beneath the perch . |
| 5 | SHATTERED kidnap mum Kerry Needham wept bitter tears of disappointment as she first laid eyes on the child she had raced 2,000 miles to see . |
| 6 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 7 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 8 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 9 | It was the first bit of luck she had had all afternoon . |
| 10 | At one board meeting she proposed introducing padded coat hangers ‘ but that was never going to turn our fortunes ’ , according to John James . |
| 11 | It was the first remark she had volunteered all evening . |
| 12 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm ambitious , too , ’ she said confidingly , thinking of the crèche she wanted to own one day . |
| 14 | The place was too full of memories ; like the day she 'd discovered most kids had mothers , not just a Bran . |
| 15 | His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her . |
| 16 | But then she remembered the white-haired , fragile old woman she 'd met last night , and she sighed . |
| 17 | The cold feeling she had experienced that morning crept over her ; she remembered the library book , and , with a feeling of panic , recollected Hank 's trip to New York . |
| 18 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 19 | By morning she had lost five pounds , there was no right pelvic pain or ovarian swelling , and she felt much better generally . |
| 20 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 21 | He was some sort of a manservant , because above his dark trousers and over his white shirt he had the sort of striped waistcoat she had imagined such people would wear — normally only in films , though , especially as this particular waistcoat was striped in black and subdued gold . |
| 22 | A man she had met three times . |
| 23 | Yes , it was the Felipe de Santis she remembered but it was also the man she had had harsh words with this morning — the driver of the red Porsche . |
| 24 | She stared hard at the black curly hairs on the neck of the man she 'd married nine years before . |
| 25 | Throughout her married life she had to play second fiddle to the interests of her husband . |
| 26 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 27 | Her mother was dead like the badger she had seen last week in the woods , with its hair all stiff , and its mouth curled open . |
| 28 | Hugh did n't wake as she lay down on top of the sheet beside him and before dawn she fell into the heaviest sleep she had enjoyed that holiday . |
| 29 | The fresh air she breathed made pure blood for you , and often during the day she wondered what you would be like , whether your eyes would be blue or brown , and prayed God to make you a good child . |
| 30 | She started with the bones — good thing she had taken those anatomy courses — and laid on muscle , flesh and skin . |