Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 2 | Twice she tried to get water to Midnight . |
| 3 | She 'd saved Blazer from slaughter . |
| 4 | He had even held the receiver out in Folly 's direction , but she 'd blushed crimson with embarrassment and pushed it away . |
| 5 | She remembered now why she 'd hated sport at school . |
| 6 | One of them , recently relieved of a large Norwegian and still visibly tense , said she 'd lost interest in food and would settle for not having all the cup handles knocked off . |
| 7 | Only a short time before she 'd had Penry for company while she knitted . |
| 8 | Every time she imagined coming face to face with him her stomach knotted . |
| 9 | She began to discuss illness with authority . |
| 10 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 11 | She claimed that she had surrendered possession of Bigorre to Edward I in England by word of mouth , but without prejudice to her rights . |
| 12 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |
| 13 | In the past , she had played hostess at dinner parties there . |
| 14 | She had limited capacity for invention , and her fairy stories are low on enchantment , but she had unusual talent for entering into a child 's feelings . |
| 15 | She tells us that she had studied scripture from childhood , and had been drawn to the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation at the age of fifteen , in 1636 . |
| 16 | Following article in the last issue on ‘ returning to work ’ felt that there was another side to the coin and felt she had to put pen to paper to balance out various viewpoints . |
| 17 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 18 | The inquest heard she had spent time in council care as a child and feared something similar might happen again . |
| 19 | At work , given that , despite her de glamorisation , she had had cause to cold-shoulder one Lothario from Purchasing and another from Sales who had been fresh beyond what she thought acceptable , she was quite contented with her lot . |
| 20 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 21 | She had sold pride for pleasure . |
| 22 | In the end she had sold bit by bit anything she could lay her hands on . |
| 23 | When she got home she had to boil spaghetti in acqua minerale . |
| 24 | Then , one morning , just as suddenly as she had taken leave of absence , she was back . |
| 25 | She suggested meeting Wainfleet at lunchtime to hear the rest , confident he would not turn her down . |