Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all .
2 Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her .
3 She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk .
4 No , she 'd left him a reassuring note .
5 Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child .
6 She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes .
7 She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them .
8 She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects .
9 She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques .
10 She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it .
11 But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving .
12 She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there .
13 She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all .
14 She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many .
15 But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth .
16 But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell .
17 Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had .
18 They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier .
19 She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown .
20 Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder .
21 When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one .
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