Example sentences of "she [vb past] an empty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Searching through a scattered pile of utensils , she found an empty pail , opened the door , and shoved it outside . |
| 2 | She saw an empty sandwich packet on the wooden bench beside her and remembered that she had decided to eat lunch in St James ' Park . |
| 3 | She saw an empty space on the walls and demanded to know where the picture was . |
| 4 | Then , as Sophie prepared to get out , she saw an empty car — a blue Porsche — standing outside the surgery door . |
| 5 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |