Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then suddenly she remembered the third bedroom , and sat up , hugging her knees . |
| 2 | Alone she saw the last of the adult Callanish eagles fall ; alone she watched . |
| 3 | As she did so she noticed a second man , who peered with interest from the passenger seat of the utility . |
| 4 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 5 | Finally she reached the last notes , and took a final bow , practically flinging the microphone at Candy , who had stepped on stage to act as compère . |
| 6 | An hour later she added the last few remaining sticks and huddled down again . |
| 7 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 8 | Shakily she squeezed the last two glasses out of the bottle . |
| 9 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
| 10 | Abruptly she downed the last drop of her shandy and stood up . |
| 11 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 12 | Instead she blurted the first thing that came into her head . |
| 13 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 14 | BRITISH Airways pilot Barbara Harmer flew into the record books yesterday when she became the first woman to operate a Concorde . |
| 15 | Dayflower made history last week at York when she became the first Dubai trained runner to win in England and 31-year-old trainer Indian Satish Seewar will be hoping for a similar landmark in Ireland . |
| 16 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 17 | AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency . |
| 18 | FIONA Saunders , 24 , made a small piece of personal finance history when she became the 50,000th saver with Britain 's oldest and largest investment trust . |
| 19 | The American was streaking clear in the 100 metres hurdles when she hit the last barrier and crashed to the ground . |
| 20 | THE Republic 's President , Mary Robinson , was the toast of a remote island community today when she opened the first licensed premises on Inishturk in Clew Bay . |
| 21 | Yet she dreaded the next few hours . |
| 22 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 23 | Around the world — in Japan where ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ won record of the year in its top music awards , in Israel where Kylie was voted most popular female singer of the year and Finland where she became the first artist ever to have four consecutive number ones in a year — the picture was the same : gold , silver and platinum framed . |
| 24 | Sure enough , not long afterwards she heard the first faint sounds of pursuit . |