Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 2 | She wished to offer herself in complete love , without demanding in return any limit to his interest in other people . |
| 3 | She had used inexperienced girls with no make-up , she had shown their deliberately unshaven armpits , she had dressed them in creased and crumpled frocks — the mood shot taken to its logical conclusion , perhaps , as well as an echo of her mother 's antipathy towards using professional models , but a far cry from the traditional ‘ Laura Ashley ’ image of strawberries-and-cream-tea on the lawn . |
| 4 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 5 | She wore enormous shapeless skirts which looked as if they were made from old curtains or bedspreads , and baggy sweatshirts which she had dyed herself in dingy shades of rust , snot-green and pale mouldy purple . |
| 6 | She had disgraced herself in public , which was bad enough . |
| 7 | Well apparently she said stands her in good stead because |
| 8 | Despite the time of year she intended to dress herself in mauve silk , a coat and skirt faced with regal purple and embellished with a cream lace jabot . |