Example sentences of "[conj] she [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1917–18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction , where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb . |
| 2 | Mia was driven to the Drumcondra clinic , where she instantly fell in love with rough , red-haired little Tip . |
| 3 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 4 | Although she usually got on well with children , she found Hilary heavy going . |
| 5 | Ana seemed to be almost hungry for company and she took to coming along to Maggie 's room to chat , although she never spoke of her blindness and Maggie ventured no questions . |
| 6 | The only one he knew that well was Rosie , who had cousins in it , brothers maybe , although she never talked of it except in the most general terms . |
| 7 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 8 | Throughout her adventurous journeys she kept careful notes of her experiences , from which it is clear that , although she often stayed in grand hotels and the mansions of her friends , she was also prepared to sleep in monasteries , roadside inns , and , if necessary , peasants ' cottages or even in her own carriage . |
| 9 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 10 | It was not until the next to last day of the visit that she finally formulated to herself her secret desire , which was to see Montmartre at night . |
| 11 | What the evidence does show is that he was genuinely fond of his new wife and that she probably died of a heart attack . |
| 12 | I imagine , from what I know of life in Bom Jesus , that she probably thought of herself as fraca ( physically weak ) or fraca de juízo ( mentally weak ) and prone to ataque de nervos ( nervous attacks ) . |
| 13 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 14 | Journalists treated her with such awe and respect that she soon thrived on interviews , developed her eccentricities and refined the mythical aspect of the success . |
| 15 | You felt that she passionately cared about the French soldiers and made sure they won the war . |
| 16 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 17 | Like the other women , Barbara Lipscombe was asked if she had ‘ particular ways of doing things ’ that she regularly kept to in housework : |
| 18 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 19 | Henrietta Louisa , Countess of Pomfret , after whom the house is named , was so utterly besotted with the Gothic taste that she even thought of encasing Hawksmoor 's classical Easton Neston in the style . |
| 20 | One of Wigan 's local councillors , whose mother was active in the Labour Party women 's section , remembers that she also worked on the pit top . |
| 21 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 22 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 23 | As it was , she became more and more incensed as she tried to break out of his limpet-like hold , the result being that when she did manage to break free she was so outraged — just because she was a female contracts officer , the boss 's son thought he could do as he liked with her — that she verbally tore into him . |
| 24 | And instead , all she could hear was a wailing noise that she hardly recognised as her own voice . |
| 25 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 26 | This Airacomet is significant to the Museum in that she actually flew from March while assigned to the 420th Base Unit , Continental Air Command , during that Unit 's posting to March Field in late 1945 . |
| 27 | She could remember his amazement on learning what she did to earn her living ; there had even been a hint of surprise that she actually needed to . |
| 28 | The last words came so vehemently that she almost choked on them . |
| 29 | The ham , which everyone ate avidly , and which Sally-Anne forced down , was off and the butter was so rancid that she almost choked over it . |
| 30 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |