Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 2 | While Greg was living up at the farm she forgot to bring down milk for the cat . |
| 3 | She began to put on weight at almost every feed . |
| 4 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 5 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 6 | And still Shiona had failed to pin down Jake , despite the fact that , out of desperation , she had taken up residence at his Edinburgh home . |
| 7 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 8 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 9 | Not that she was afraid ; she once said that she travelled to seek out danger to ‘ silence fear ’ so that she could reach the end of her days ‘ free from that mortal weakness ’ . |