Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 9 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 10 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 11 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 12 | Even his appearance annoyed Benny , although she knew this was unreasonable . |
| 13 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 14 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 15 | Although she showed little interest in my academic life — her energies were spent in the pursuit of foxes and Guards officers — she was always brimful of common sense on every subject under the sun , not to mention having constant contact with a string of eligible young men who seemed to arrive in a never-ending convoy at the front door of 97 Chelsea Terrace . |
| 16 | She remained sedated and in a critical condition throughout Tuesday 7 July although she showed some slight improvement . |
| 17 | I knew , too , that she felt such an excursion would be just a little too unconventional for one of her position . |
| 18 | She is adamant that under no circumstances would she consent to further use of a nasogastric tube , whether or not she was drugged to such a degree that she felt little discomfort as it was pushed down into her stomach . |
| 19 | It was not that she felt any differently about motherhood . |
| 20 | It was only sometimes , in the warm dusks , that she felt this life was not perfect , not as full to her as it seemed . |
| 21 | The problem with placing Mary Leapor within this discussion is that it is not certain that she read any of the poems with which these critics are primarily concerned . |
| 22 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
| 23 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 24 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 25 | Leapor 's poetry makes clear that she suffered many distressing lectures from her father , yet if the poet and her father had reached an understanding , indeed , if they intended to use the money from the subscription to buy their freehold and have security for their life together , Landry 's interpretation of this episode is simply captious . |
| 26 | Perhaps , though , it was because of his promise that he would think about it , that she saw that as a favourable hope . |
| 27 | Surely we do not wish to deny that she saw these hazards despite her being unable to tell us anything about what she saw . |
| 28 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 29 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 30 | I 've never felt that she deserved that . |