Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With what she was going to leave to each of her relations written down in it so that when she got fed up with one of them she could just strike his name out ! ’ |
| 2 | It was er and when she got worked up about that Fancy Goods place |
| 3 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 4 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 5 | Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order . |
| 6 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 7 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 8 | She had grown up amongst beautiful clothes , been dressed from childhood in designer fashion , been made to stand still for fittings for her graduation dress and her first ball gown , and hated every moment of it . |
| 9 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 10 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 11 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 12 | Before the war she had gone out with those fishers and watched them spear their quarry by torchlight in the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | She had gone down with all hands in the North Atlantic . |
| 14 | Matthew wondered whether it was simply a lucky draw from the gene pool that she had ended up with such spectacular looks , or was it the result of years of careful nurturing ? |
| 15 | The smell excited her like a pheromone , even now , three years after she had walked out on all that madness . |
| 16 | The woman had taunted him for his lack of passion and forthrightness and she had walked off with one of the young dockers . |
| 17 | She had walked down through suburban Summertown , taking her time but without reluctance ; watching the tidiness of the shoppers and the smartness of the shops with something akin to smugness - how little energy and vitality they had , compared to her own shopping street , with its untidy market atmosphere permeating even the Safeways and Boots which had tried to raise their modern , never-had-it-so-good façades in challenge to the poverty and squalor , and had failed . |
| 18 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 19 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 20 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 21 | It did n't feel like it , in spite of the decorations she had put up with such care , and the pile of letters and parcels waiting on the table to be opened tomorrow morning . |
| 22 | And yet , of course , she had noticed ; the darkness once again hid the colour that rose to her cheeks at the recollection of the airs she had put on during those visits to the racecourse . |
| 23 | She had come in with fresh water to bathe his back and hands , and stole extra time to finish the job , because he was conscious and willing to lie still . |
| 24 | When at last they lay quietly , her head resting on Luke 's shoulder , her hand spread against the damp warmth of his skin , Fran felt as though she had come back from some great journey that had shifted her conception and understanding of everything . |
| 25 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 26 | Juliet had managed to grab a cup of coffee and a sandwich , but had been reluctant to leave Wendy Target virtually alone on the ward , so she had hurried back after ten minutes . |
| 27 | Sister and her nurse had calmed her down a little and found out that the child 's father had deserted them , and she had taken up with another man . |
| 28 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |