Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 5 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She is adamant that under no circumstances would she consent to further use of a nasogastric tube , whether or not she was drugged to such a degree that she felt little discomfort as it was pushed down into her stomach . |
| 11 | It was only sometimes , in the warm dusks , that she felt this life was not perfect , not as full to her as it seemed . |
| 12 | I mean the one is a classic one when she knew it was Scottish based that she passed any correspondence on |
| 13 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 14 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 15 | Surely we do not wish to deny that she saw these hazards despite her being unable to tell us anything about what she saw . |
| 16 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 17 | She bit her lip and knew that she deserved such punishment . |
| 18 | ‘ Galadriel , ’ muttered Gilly , not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name . |
| 19 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
| 20 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 21 | He threw the handkerchief carelessly into a laundry basket , then before she knew what was happening , he was kissing the tips of her fingers , then her palms , then drawing her hands towards him so that she had little choice but to slide her arms around him and receive his kiss . |
| 22 | Not that she had many choices . |
| 23 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 24 | Although Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich , in September 1533 , there was no son forthcoming and Henry VIII became convinced that she had another lover , so he had her beheaded on 19th . |
| 25 | And erm , it s it seems to be an entirely er rational position for any public politician , for instance , Mrs Thatcher before the seventy-nine election , denying that she had any plans to double V A T , or Mr Major denying some of the plans for raising taxes that we 've come up with , or indeed denying plans to privatise the forestry commission . |
| 26 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 27 | She was trying hard to deny to herself that she had any feelings for him . |
| 28 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 29 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 30 | ‘ Wyndham ’ was n't a very unusual name and , so far , no one seemed to suspect that she had any connection with the newsworthy , hard and formidable entrepreneur Ross Wyndham . |