Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] she the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another showed her the dark stains down his chest and across the dashboard and windscreen . |
| 2 | This gave her the opportunity to bleat even more madly , puffing noisily between bleats to prove how sorely she was being tried . |
| 3 | This gave her the entrée into many whispering galleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power . |
| 4 | Weeks of painstaking work on the complex choreography of her 40 minute show pay off as she struts , high-kicks and glides around the tiny , tightly guarded stage singing the song that first gave her the confidence to dream of a career as a pop star . |
| 5 | It read as if having to play auntie instead of Schumann first gave her the idea of coming over — Here 's our hunter home from the hill . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Sugden meant no harm to anyone , but neither had she the intelligence to be really kind . |
| 7 | But there was no denying Miss Higgins and a par five at the last gave her the trophy she had her heart set on . |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 . |