Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her government began with a huge surrender , the quite unexpected settlement in which she acquiesced which ended the long-running saga of British relations with the former Southern Rhodesia , now renamed Zimbabwe . |
| 2 | Several times she thought she saw the tall figure of the guide , only to be disappointed . |
| 3 | For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square . |
| 4 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |
| 5 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 6 | With the legacy she left me when she died I bought the little flat on Fernhill . |
| 7 | When she demurred he said the other possibility was that Holly had tipped them off . |
| 8 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |