Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 2 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Has Mr MacKay left yet ? ’ she 'd enquired of the startled receptionist . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 12 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 13 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 14 | She laughed happily , remembering the pains she 'd gone to the previous evening . |
| 15 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 16 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 17 | Look at what she 'd faced in the past twelve hours . |
| 18 | At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ? |
| 19 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 20 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 21 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 22 | No wonder she 'd disappeared into the wide blue yonder . |
| 23 | She seemed absorbed in the young man 's conversation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 26 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 27 | After her swim she had sprawled in the hot sun to dry off naturally then dressed and lazily explored the lovely Mediterranean gardens . |
| 28 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 29 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 30 | She had lived in the lovely old building for twenty years and never had any desire to leave it or the grounds . |