Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 2 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 3 | She had used make-up sparingly due to the heat , and had chosen a blouson dress with thin straps , made of numerous tiny pleats that fanned out as she walked showing off the pastel rainbow hues of the silky material . |
| 4 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 5 | There was no way she knew to fill up the violent sadness that had emptied her . |
| 6 | She could n't bring herself to look at him , and God knew how she managed to drag out the conventional words in a voice already husky with pain . |
| 7 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 8 | Surely this night the unexpected would happen , surely she had summoned up the unexpected . |
| 9 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 10 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 11 | He wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |
| 12 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 13 | As soon as she had forced down the last of her food , she pushed her plate away and stood up . |
| 14 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 15 | And she said take up the that A B C one . |
| 16 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 17 | She wanted to sort out the Social Security first . |
| 18 | ‘ Said she wanted to find out the latest angle on the police battle against drugs . ’ |