Example sentences of "[be] [verb] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did she not help ; in the time when she could have been helping she did things like lining the kitchen cupboards with flowery paper , polishing the brass door knocker , ironing tea-towels and shampooing the TV room carpet . |
| 2 | Feeling dejected , she tried to push the questions from her mind , and as soon as the register formalities had been completed she left the office and went to see if she could assist Matt with the loading of the barbecue trailer . |
| 3 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're implying she became his mistress ? ’ |
| 5 | AN UNPRECEDENTED string of deaths and life-threatening collapses began on a hospital children 's ward after a nurse had been told she lacked experience caring for sick youngsters , a court was told yesterday . |
| 6 | When the conversation deserved to be punctuated she threw back her head and gave a perfectly proportioned peal of carefully modulated laughter . |
| 7 | Before that could be arranged she took very poorly one day and an ambulance had to be sent for — luckily one of the nearby farms had a telephone . |
| 8 | Even when she was travelling she would be checking she had all the facts at her finger tips for her next assignment . |
| 9 | Having asked that she should not be disturbed she had taken the overdose in her room . |
| 10 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 11 | Ace had warned her they would be leaving by helicopter , but where they would be going she had no idea . |
| 12 | Her mother never knew this , though , and because she had agreed to accept that the words ‘ action stations ’ meant that there was an urgent and valid reason for the conversation to be terminated she felt no sense of rejection . |
| 13 | In her haste to be gone she stuffed Dotty Blundell 's brassière into the pocket of her overalls . |
| 14 | And er I do do n't know which day it was but she was sitting there fed up second day I 'm thinking she said well I , I 'm going home tomorrow , so I said no you 're staying in for the week ! |
| 15 | And now David would be thinking she wanted him to take her out again . |
| 16 | The ‘ Dolphin ’ was paid off in Sheerness in 1896 and after her engines had been removed she became a seagoing training ship . |
| 17 | And when she had n't been arguing she had been calm , efficient , distant … |
| 18 | Even when she was being reprimanded she had still loved to listen to her mother 's voice . |
| 19 | She was oddly quiet , seemed in an odd mood altogether , though not an unhappy one : while they were eating she sat staring over the valley with a dreamy look in her eyes and a small , secret smile on her face . |
| 20 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 21 | Even if she were to write she knew she would never post the letter . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're really thirty , ’ said Catriona , trying to sound as if she were pretending she did n't believe it . |
| 23 | do that she must come very early in the morning cos to go from here cos all the old boys were flirting she had to look like . |
| 24 | Once the birds were enclosed she leaned against the low coconut tree behind the house and examined her arms in the gentle afternoon light , wondering what colour they were . |
| 25 | Swindon Magistrates were told she 'd lost her temper and punched 88-year-old Sarah Fribbins in the eye . |
| 26 | Julie , 28 , was on an overland trek of Africa when her parents were told she had disappeared . |
| 27 | Without explaining to where they were going she walked regally from the room swinging her brief-case which , unlike a great many brief-cases on the streets of Berlin , was filled with notes and papers and not stolen goods . |
| 28 | When we were introduced she turned to Freddie and said haughtily . |
| 29 | But now they were spoken she knew she had been right . |
| 30 | Before being dumped she had been beaten , stripped and then had petrol poured over her body and was set on fire . |