Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil , Andy and Alyson all made it to the semi-final , but only Alyson made it through to the final , where she came fourth and received a medal for her achievement . |
| 2 | So , having no more to discuss on that topic , I went on to ask Sylvia if she could think of a place in her own home where she felt uneasy if the door was shut . |
| 3 | Late that evening Liz returned to her flat , where she felt lonely and miserable , particularly when she remembered how happy everyone had seemed earlier in the day . |
| 4 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 5 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 6 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 7 | Virginia turned her head lazily where she lay supine on the fine white sand , and shot Guy a smile of such radiance that he flipped off his Raybans and propped himself on his elbows to scrutinise her more intently . |
| 8 | ‘ There , there , ’ he kept saying , until she lay calm against his shoulder , calm and sodden : ‘ Come to bed , ’ he said , and pulled her to her feet , and supported her up the stairs , past the paintings and the roses , and into her bedroom , where she lay motionless as he began to take off her sandals , her tights , her dress . |
| 9 | It was an effort for Leonora to wish him goodnight , an even greater effort to walk upstairs slowly , instead of running headlong to her room , where she lay sleepless for hours , unable to get Penry Vaughan 's handsome , cynical face out of her mind . |
| 10 | Her body was found at her flat where she lived alone in Tewkesbury Walk , Newport , Gwent , on 1 July 1988 . |
| 11 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 12 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 13 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 14 | As soon as he had driven Liz Spalding to her small apartment , where she made some basic changes to her appearance , and grabbed a bite to eat , Bodie took her to Linda 's school . |
| 15 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 16 | Rosalba tried to respond , turning to her friend and patting down a curl or two round her face ; then she adjusted the combs which held her friend 's hair behind her ears , where she wore small gold hoops . |
| 17 | Finally she returned to the information desk where she 'd first encountered him the previous day , and found a pretty young woman sitting there stacking up guide books on Dublin . |
| 18 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 19 | He could have gone on , recklessly , but he was unwilling to reach a consummation where she shared any abandon with him ; he had not forgiven her . |
| 20 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 21 | From 1893 to 1895 she visited the Church of Scotland mission in Blantyre , Nyasaland , to do linguistic work and prepare school textbooks , and Maritzburg , Natal , where she acquired Zulu and Afrikaans . |
| 22 | Latterly , Elizabeth had married but had been the victim of a cruel and brutal husband , and had retreated to her parents ' home at the post office where she fell ill and later died . |
| 23 | She had to go to the Garfield Centre , where she taught one day a week , to see the inmates perform their Christmas entertainment . |
| 24 | This is Eavan 's reward for a cool and competent victory in the national championship at Royal Belfast , where she beat 20-year-old Aideen Rogers in the final ( one hole ) . |
| 25 | Pausing only to once more fill up with petrol , she drove through the German border and six miles on stopped at Cheb , on the Czechoslovakian border , where she changed some English pounds for Czech crowns , and drove on wondering if this ‘ on edge ’ feeling was going to stay with her until lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 26 | Did he turn silent where she turned prim ? |
| 27 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 28 | It has been disclosed that within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary yesterday where she stayed three nights and underwent an operation to remove a piece of fish lodged in her throat she was entertaining guests . |
| 29 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 30 | Lesley , who is single , was taken straight to the operating theatre where she underwent immediate surgery on severe injuries to her stomach . |