Example sentences of "[verb] she [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked to take walks alone , and occasionally pretended she completely belonged in St James 's Park or Kensington and always had . |
| 2 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 3 | Sybille , who witnessed Laura 's behaviour with journalists , believed she always felt under attack by the English press . |
| 4 | All her staff believed she genuinely cared for their welfare for no other reason than her deeply-felt need to be surrounded by a contented workforce . |
| 5 | She says she just stepped onto the road after looking both ways . |
| 6 | She says she never wanted to be a movie star : ‘ For me , it was always the stage . ’ |
| 7 | She wanted to bike along the road for a swim but after she finished dressing she simply sat on the edge of the bath and looked out of the window . |
| 8 | I do n't think she ever came to the City of the Horizon . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She was lucky and talented and she could do that , but I do n't think she ever wanted to be a drummer … |
| 10 | she coul , I mean she just looked like a Michelin man , as though somebody pumped her up with a |
| 11 | The grandfather clock and Welsh dresser were from the antiques stall she once had in London 's Portabello Road market . |
| 12 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 13 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 14 | And when she protested she never lay like that and had proceeded to demonstrate how she did lie , crossing her legs and pulling her knees up , she had let out a high squeal when the side of Sister Mary 's hard hand came across her knees in a whacking thump . |
| 15 | Seems she just stepped off the pavement to get in front of a row of people and … ’ |
| 16 | It gave him a qualm to realise that a large part of his need to see her again stemmed from her usefulness to him as a go between . |
| 17 | He treated Clarissa 's interjection with particular scorn because he knew she thoroughly approved of the Prime Minister 's contribution to peace . |
| 18 | Katherine Colgrave 's lawyers claim she only discovered in 1984 that she may have escaped disability if she 'd been correctly diagnosed and treated soon after birth . |
| 19 | He sat down , and without waiting to be asked she too relaxed into the familiar chair in front of his desk . |
| 20 | If this were so , I think she too capitulated to Flora . |
| 21 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 22 | But Paula says the Press have n't been fair she explains she actually went through two speed traps without knowing it . |
| 23 | Whenever she did she never stayed for long . |
| 24 | she said , I , she said she never spoke to me last week , for four days |
| 25 | Unless it was , Derek , Derek said she really jabbed in the |
| 26 | He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it . |
| 27 | And then when she came back and I was returned she actually went into a factory then . |