Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 2 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 3 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 4 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 5 | She wore nothing beneath other than cami-knickers , but before they followed her dress he nuzzled her graceful neck , and stroked her striking red hair . |
| 6 | He gave her specialist child custody advice and helped her win legal aid for her court battle . |
| 7 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 8 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 9 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 10 | Maria did n't think Luke seriously believed she craved some material gain to show for their relationship . |
| 11 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 12 | The side letter advised her to take independent advice . |
| 13 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 14 | Then something , a movement to her right , caused her to turn that way . |
| 15 | She wrinkled her freckled teenage nose . |
| 16 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 17 | I told her to buy this island . |
| 18 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 19 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 20 | But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice . |
| 21 | A PATIENT who claimed she suffered severe brain damage from an allergic reaction to anaesthetic drugs was awarded interim damages of £50,000 yesterday . |
| 22 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 23 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 24 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 25 | When she walked she moved each hip separately , like a gunslinger moving towards an opponent down Main Street . |
| 26 | Where their flesh touched she became one thing with him . |
| 27 | The inquest into her death today heard she suffered acute brain damage and a fractured skull . |
| 28 | He taught her to make easy corn dollies . |
| 29 | Angela Cartwright jammed her befeathered tweedy hat on her head . |
| 30 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |