Example sentences of "that she [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 2 | During the holiday her arm felt so lifeless that she went to a local Swiss hospital for an X-ray . |
| 3 | Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time . |
| 4 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 5 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 6 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 7 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 8 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 9 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 10 | It was not every night , she reflected , that she dined with a secret agent . |
| 11 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |