Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 2 | She 'd gone in first thing but could n't face the idea of working . |
| 3 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 4 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 5 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 6 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 7 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 8 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 9 | Or was it because he was the way he was that she had walked out one day when Dadda was at work and he at school , leaving a note on the kitchen table and the remains of the week 's housekeeping money ? |
| 10 | She had never been to Suffolk , but had chosen it because she had found out that property there was cheapest and the rates lowest , of all the counties within reach of London . |
| 11 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 12 | She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning . |
| 13 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 14 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 15 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 16 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 17 | And like a faithful friend , she had carried out these instructions to the letter ; with one unforeseen eventuality . |