Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 2 | She went to the headquarters of the Special Air Services in Hereford where she underwent a ‘ terrifying ’ driving course where she learnt the basic techniques in handling a possible terrorist attack or kidnap attempt . |
| 3 | Moments later Rachel was beside the patient again , where she administered the antianginal medication spray beneath his tongue , then , closing his mouth , put the oxygen mask over his nose to assist his breathing . |
| 4 | They were in cupboards , boxes , bags , under beds , in drawers , behind cushions , and even in the big soup pan where she made the marvellous soups . |
| 5 | I dropped the axe , wiped my temples and joined her where she held the incandescent bung away from her skin . |
| 6 | Instead , she chose to visit the bleak northeast coastline , where she used the restoring — but freezing — waters of the sea to ease her pain ! |
| 7 | there was this picture of this , I do n't know if it was a man or a woman naked in a cubical and it filled , well he or she filled the cubical and you could n't see where the , the bottom began |
| 8 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 9 | When that happened , however , there would at least be the compensation that she became the first of them to have her power formally acknowledged with the title of regent . |
| 10 | And it was then , in that moment , that she felt the first twitch of anxiety . |
| 11 | He liked her very much , and I was sure that she felt the same about him . |
| 12 | ‘ So much so that she told the entire matinée audience of a Noel Coward play ! |
| 13 | Peggy saw with some dismay that she wore the distant smile of a woman reviewing her late husband 's insurance position . |
| 14 | It was as they stepped from the dodgem stand and Rachel turned from helping Belinda down the steep steps to the grass that she saw the little group of her family watching them . |
| 15 | It was only when she got home and looked in the hall mirror that she saw the enormous dark red love bite on her neck . |
| 16 | will never be allowed to forget that she cut the Social Services budget by one tenth . |
| 17 | Claudia was so outraged that she had the greatest difficulty in keeping the rage she felt enough under control for her to be coherent . |
| 18 | The artist … explained that the printer 's contribution in creating the official lithograph was merely mechanical , that his sole contribution was to reproduce the original as closely as possible , and that she had the absolute right of approval of all aspects of the final prints . |
| 19 | And when he met and married Nessie Monaghan , he was immediately aware , like any true artist , that she had the better natural voice and he contented himself with being a better-than-ordinary pub tenor and a hit at every christening , wedding and funeral he attended . |
| 20 | Reading a letter from Miss Joan Rix in the EADT last week , I find that she had the same thoughts as myself . |
| 21 | That she had the same troubles , worries and hopes that he had . |
| 22 | The farmer put Tess next to the threshing-machine , so that she had the hardest and most tiring job of all . |
| 23 | Not that she had the slightest prejudice against blacks . |
| 24 | When asked about statistical material , the teacher stated that she had the national statistics . |
| 25 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
| 26 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 27 | So it is no accident that the teachers are black ; or that she enlisted the active help of Dance Theatre of Harlem . |
| 28 | She never told her husband about her relationship with Phillip Levy and it was only after both men had died that she made the difficult decision to confess her secret life . |
| 29 | A resounding yes from all but Kat , who contrarily stated that she thought the direct , uncensored attack of rap is beautiful and even quoted NWA as an example of this . |
| 30 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |