Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 2 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 3 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 4 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 5 | I do n't know why she gets played , she got to play the leading role ? |
| 6 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 7 | What she needed was to sleep , and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her . |
| 8 | She tried to stifle the insidious army of questions tentatively beginning to attack her . |
| 9 | She tried to dismiss the odd feeling of anticlimax she was experiencing . |
| 10 | Topaz stamped her foot , beside herself with fury as she tried to defend the dead woman whose legacy she had to bear . |
| 11 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 12 | Even though she tried to pack the single word with a wealth of bored indifference , Rory could n't help but be curious . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's — ’ She tried to place the faint West Country burr in his voice . |
| 14 | She tried to blink the red mist from her eyes , failed , and toppled backwards out of the image field . |
| 15 | She promised to attend the 1992 ceremony . |
| 16 | In truth , she found watching the endless circuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to . |
| 17 | ‘ Switch off engine , ’ Dick commanded , and she let go the red button . |
| 18 | She stooped to brush the clean sand with her hand , as a woman might smooth a satin cushion for a guest in her drawing-room . |
| 19 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 20 | Once they reached the canal bank , however , Robbie had no doubt that she 'd done the right thing . |
| 21 | Loretta put down the phone with a sense of unease , wondering if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 22 | She 'd lavished the new moisturiser on her face , outlined her mouth with a muted pink lipstick , and for the finishing touch gathered her hair into a loose knot on top of her head with a length of black velvet purchased along with the cosmetics . |
| 23 | She 'd said the right thing . |
| 24 | And immediately wondered if she 'd said the right thing , for Lubor wasted no time in asking , ‘ And what are you going to do today ? ’ |
| 25 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 26 | Either she was losing her mind , or she 'd followed the wrong man . |
| 27 | Was it because she 'd broken the seventh commandment ? |
| 28 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 29 | Laura had never had any doubts that she 'd made the right decision . |
| 30 | Perhaps she 'd made the wrong choice , after all , she was thinking . |