Example sentences of "and she [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 2 | And she 'd got a big black hat on , and a big black cloak , and all er crosses down here , and she 's got a boot on her arm all laced up , and nobody 'd know whether she were a man or a woman . |
| 3 | In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then . |
| 4 | Aunt Alicia was old , she kept telling herself , and she 'd had a full life , and she died in her sleep with no pain , but somehow it did not seem to make it much better . |
| 5 | It was difficult while they were actually in the centre , of course , but she made sure she did n't go for coffee or to the staff canteen at the same time as him and she 'd avoided the social club completely . |
| 6 | IMP had paid her generously , and she 'd hoarded the little money she 'd made on her flat once it had been sold , but it still had n't been enough to buy her somewhere to live . |
| 7 | ‘ You want to tuck them in well , ’ said Miss Maynard , as Harry immediately stopped crying and she began to demonstrate the correct way of settling him into his cot . |
| 8 | Her spirits drooped , and she began to dread the coming meeting with Lady Merchiston . |
| 9 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 10 | The difference was that the teacher in the first group really related to the material and to the children , and she had understood the underlying purpose and challenge of RE and was able to point up the discussion , listening carefully to what the children said and leading them on in their thinking . |
| 11 | The courts ' attitude did not depend on endowing the husband in such cases with the role of agent for the lender , but they demonstrated an equitable intervention in favour of married women where the lender knew of the husband/wife relationship , had done nothing to ensure that the wife understood the transaction , and she had received no independent advice . |
| 12 | The hut roof was fairly whole now , and she had built a tiny hearth under the highest part of the roof where she might risk a fire . |
| 13 | It had been a slow process , of course , but gradually her reputation had grown and she had gained a singular name for creative , imaginative work . |
| 14 | The treatment meted out was degrading and she had hated the middle classes ever after . |
| 15 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 16 | Bernard and she had discovered a whole new range of fashionable sexual positions . |
| 17 | And she had returned the following afternoon , carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack . |
| 18 | Sukie had been rushed to hospital after taking an overdose of sleeping tablets , and she had left an incriminating love letter to him . |
| 19 | Then her anger erupted , her hand flashed upwards and she had delivered a stinging slap to his left cheek before she even realised that she intended to . |
| 20 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 21 | Six months later the Great War had broken out and she had found a new cause . |
| 22 | There was nobody around , and she had to unlock the enormous oak doors herself , using both hands to turn the iron key , then pushing one of the doors open , her shoulder against it , before she was able to see outside . |
| 23 | She was passionately interested in politics and most of all in the personnel of politics , and she had cultivated a limited group of Labour politicians who , with her , were rightly described as Harold Wilson 's ‘ Kitchen Cabinet ’ . |
| 24 | She had dabbed powder over her lipstick to rob it of its bright crimson lustre , and she had forgotten the little pink patches of rouge that gave her cheeks their rosy healthy glow . |
| 25 | Her heart was in her mouth , and she dreaded hearing a shrill witch 's voice cry out to her to stop . |
| 26 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 27 | And she came to play a significant role in building his career . |
| 28 | Long lashes lay in a fan on his cheeks , and she longed to smooth the ruffled dark hair away from his brow . |
| 29 | The air was soft and a little wet , and she enjoyed feeling the cool , damp dungy earth in her hands . |
| 30 | The look in his eyes told her quite clearly he did n't believe a word of it , and she struggled to maintain a bland , ingenuous expression on her own features , wondering if even he could be cruel enough to brand her a liar . |