Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful . |
| 2 | Besides , now that she had stopped walking she did n't seem to be able to stop herself from shivering . |
| 3 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 4 | Attracted to the big ape she had n't been , but she 'd be an all-out liar if she tried to pretend she had n't enjoyed his kisses . |
| 5 | She tried to pretend she did n't know what he meant , but his bantering tone had been deceptive . |
| 6 | They tried to see she did n't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive . |
| 7 | She hid it away behind a bright , brittle insouciance which plainly worried Elise to death , but for several nights wept silently into her pillow , utterly shattered to find she 'd wanted Penry 's child quite desperately without even realising it . |
| 8 | She tried to remember she had thought Robert pleasing once . |
| 9 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 10 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 11 | Harbury gaped to hear she had told the editor . |
| 12 | When he stopped speaking she said , ‘ What can I do for you , sir , in the way of cigarettes , tobacco ? ’ |
| 13 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 14 | Jane eyed her slim figure enviously , dreading the evening ahead , certain now that the old Frank Usher dress she had decided to squeeze herself into was going to look absurd . |
| 15 | Avril Waters was devastated to learn she had breast cancer . |
| 16 | If she was waiting for him to say that she did n't need to diet she had a long wait . |
| 17 | After her electrifying performance as an obsessive fan who helps Robert De Niro kidnap a talk show host in Martin Scorsese 's 1982 King Of Comedy , she has admitted she expected the phone to ring . |
| 18 | I says you 've just wasted it , er tried to say she had n't had it like , yeah I I 'm not in turn it off you been hospital ? |
| 19 | I loaded them on , and when she tried to push she found out she 'd got a trolley with a wonky wheel . |
| 20 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 21 | She 'd fought , her fists were bruised to show she 'd fought , and there was nothing to work from . |
| 22 | With the work on the campaign and the success we 'd heard she 'd had with it , would she find me too limited when I got out ? |
| 23 | The people who 'd chartered her had flown to Paris for the weekend and her crew had a party . |
| 24 | But the moment she 'd said it she 'd realised she meant it . |
| 25 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 26 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 27 | Nothing was said to indicate she had a proprietary interest in the house . |
| 28 | Maggie thought of John McNair whom Laura had met in Glasgow when she 'd gone to work there , when she 'd decided she wanted to leave home and broaden her horizons . |
| 29 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 30 | She 'd seen Jeanette close-to , and she 'd seen her scrubbed clean and ready for home . |