Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So she got rid of every last one ? ’ |
| 2 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 3 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 4 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 5 | Suddenly , I was on the top of one wave as she came thundering over the next . |
| 6 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 7 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 8 | He turned an enquiring gaze upon her as she marched towards the house , but before following her he held out his hands to Millie as she went to jump off the last step , saying now in a low tone , ‘ It looks a good enough day ’ — he pointed to the back of the cart — ‘ what 's up ? ’ |
| 9 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 10 | Eleanor Coade had the royal appointment to George III , for whom she made the Gothic screen at St George 's chapel , Windsor , and to the prince of Wales , for whom , successively as prince regent and George IV , she did work at the first Royal Pavilion , Brighton , and Carlton House . |
| 11 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 12 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |
| 13 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 14 | Theda 's hands rubbed furiously at one of the posts of the bed in the second of the chambers she had tackled in the last unnumbered days . |
| 15 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 16 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 17 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 18 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 19 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 20 | She might have been trying to reach our Post for help , but she had crawled under the last parapet , and could go no farther . |
| 21 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 22 | Ward J. took evidence on the telephone from Dr. F. , who had spoken to Miss T. in the maternity unit after she had stated for the second time that she did not wish to have a blood transfusion and before she had signed the refusal form . |
| 23 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 24 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 25 | It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared . |
| 26 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 27 | The moment it was free of debt they dissolved the partnership and replaced it by the limited-liability company she had suggested in the first place . |
| 28 | She reflected on how much she had changed since the last festival , less than seven weeks ago . |
| 29 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 30 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |