Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Even his appearance annoyed Benny , although she knew this was unreasonable . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She remained sedated and in a critical condition throughout Tuesday 7 July although she showed some slight improvement . |
| 16 | Dorothy had ‘ not often felt more regret ’ than she did that day . |
| 17 | Oh , so she had that . |
| 18 | Linda had her own part-time job helping out at Oxfam and listening to infants read at the nearby Primary School , so she had less time in fact than her husband , for Frank had been made redundant from his job in electronics in October . |
| 19 | She would have liked to sit down and enjoy it , or at least take the child early so she had some evening left when they got back . |
| 20 | things so erm , I knew it was something , anyway so she said all this , I said right well I said I 'll tell you now I said you know I 'm biased because |
| 21 | jobs , so she said that was Wednesday |
| 22 | and you know , George it you see so she said that brandy was very nice |
| 23 | Betty found this rather hard to understand , and Lydia sounded dangerous , so she peeled another potato . |
| 24 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 25 | Grand though she was , she was rarely allowed to do any nursing , beyond changing the odd dressing So she spent most of her time scrubbing floors . |
| 26 | She enquired at the hospital about Ella and was told that only family visiting was allowed , so she left some fruit there and without analysing her feeling of relief , pushed the incident to the back of her mind . |
| 27 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 28 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 29 | That was true , thought Alice , but not very helpful , so she tried another question . |
| 30 | She got this pink wool like angora twenty five pence a ball , so she started that , then she come on er , no Tuesday , with that she bought some needles cos if she 'd of had some more needles I could of done this one for er , now she 's got the back and er sleeve done I think , half a sleeve done I think |