Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 2 | When she got married in a red wedding dress well oh dear me . |
| 3 | ‘ Is this him ? ’ she asked pointing to a sober gentleman in a bowler hat and pin-stripes coming towards us . |
| 4 | Miss Paula McCloskey , 26 , also injured her other leg when she became entangled in a mincing machine at the M U P factory in Richill , Co Armagh , in June , 1990 , the High Court in Belfast was told yesterday . |
| 5 | She 'd danced with a five of Palernians , all of them at once . |
| 6 | When Sabine asked about France and French life , Isabelle had talked exclusively about Paris where she 'd trained as a commercial artist . |
| 7 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 8 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 9 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 10 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 11 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 12 | She 'd asked for a terse put-down , she reflected with some justice . |
| 13 | She 'd written about a new restaurant or hotel in one of the issues , a ‘ puff ’ being the expression , I think ; gone on an inter-island cruise ; star piece , always shown first , was her interview with their president 's wife . |
| 14 | She 'd started with a small ad in a contact magazine , and a box number to keep the entire business at arm 's length ; she could n't believe the number of replies that came in . |
| 15 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 16 | A post morteum revealled she 'd died from a large fracture of the skull , soon after she 'd been born . |
| 17 | She 'd acted like a silly hen . |
| 18 | Some said she 'd left with a broken heart . |
| 19 | She 'd behaved like a wanton , and why ? |
| 20 | It was difficult to raise the vein as the filly staggered around , but she came to rest for a few seconds and I dug my thumb into the jugular furrow . |
| 21 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 22 | Born outside the pompous circumstance of the court , she was relaxed and convivial and far less snobbish than most of the Shahs family. , Through the sixties she began to emerge as a warmhearted , rather cultured figure who was much easier with her role than the Shah with his . |
| 23 | Instead , she began to light like a wild cat . |
| 24 | She began to chant in a low , eerie voice , words in a language foreign to Lucien . |
| 25 | Melissa had barely turned the key in the ignition when she began to speak in a brittle , staccato voice . |
| 26 | This arrangement left Hortense with the responsibility of her younger son 's education , which she decided to entrust to a private tutor . |
| 27 | Growing up was much harder than was ever said , involving , as it must , both the practised , clinical coldness to which she aspired combined with a proper sense of pity when it was called for and could be expressed with dignity and without embarrassment to the parties concerned . |
| 28 | Kicking and bucking to keep her balance , she managed to draw to a shuddering halt close to the rushing torrent about ten feet below where he was standing . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh dear ! ’ she managed to say in a broken voice as the tears began to trickle . |
| 30 | She managed to walk with a reasonable degree of grace and dignity till she reached the back door , then scuttled inside as though her very life depended on it , taking the back stairs two at a time as she rushed to the bedroom to find a robe . |