Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 2 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 3 | When she got married in a red wedding dress well oh dear me . |
| 4 | ‘ Is this him ? ’ she asked pointing to a sober gentleman in a bowler hat and pin-stripes coming towards us . |
| 5 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 6 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 7 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 8 | Still staring at him , she became distracted by the dark hair that curled damply across his forehead , at the almost delicate arch of his eyebrows , the aquiline nose , the beautiful mouth , and then back to the bright , amused mockery in his blue , blue eyes . |
| 9 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 10 | Miss Paula McCloskey , 26 , also injured her other leg when she became entangled in a mincing machine at the M U P factory in Richill , Co Armagh , in June , 1990 , the High Court in Belfast was told yesterday . |
| 11 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 12 | She tried to walk over the rich green grass towards them , but her feet seemed glued in place . |
| 13 | Applying power , I forgot about the ‘ tail low ’ advice and she tried to dart off the left side of the runway before some firm right boot put us back in line for another go . |
| 14 | Abashed , she tried to shrink behind the sacrificial stone , and hid her eyes . |
| 15 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 16 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 17 | She 'd headed for the historical centre and spanned out , taking in the churches and palaces and the Lonja — the commodity exchange which housed , among other historical interests , the fine arts museum . |
| 18 | ‘ Has Mr MacKay left yet ? ’ she 'd enquired of the startled receptionist . |
| 19 | When Sabine asked about France and French life , Isabelle had talked exclusively about Paris where she 'd trained as a commercial artist . |
| 20 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 21 | Just for a few seconds she 'd fallen for the powerful aphrodisiac of music , her senses sharpened by aquavit and the potent charisma of a man who would stop at nothing to achieve his desired ends ! |
| 22 | If she 'd stayed in a fit state then she would n't have found herself in this situation now . |
| 23 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 24 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 25 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 26 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 27 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 28 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 29 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 30 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |