Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she did not want to be exact , she hinted : secreting at the back of her mind the disgust , the shame … |
| 2 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 3 | And right where she did n't expect it in the black universe was another dark space , solid with hidden meanings , difficult to see , alien to her comprehension . |
| 4 | Or perhaps they felt shy anyway , seeing her here where she did n't belong . |
| 5 | The adult Eileen was quite intelligent enough to understand the devastating effects of those careless words on the child she had been — although she did not blame her mother in any way for using them . |
| 6 | Theodora was surprised , although she did not show it . |
| 7 | But Finn came and sat beside her and gave her another cream bun , which she accepted gladly as a token of friendship , although she did not want it . |
| 8 | But there were other things , things she remembered hearing had happened , although she did not want to alarm her daughter by warning her against them . |
| 9 | Although she did not watch the videos he made , through discussion she was able to help him to gain control of a class which had initially been ‘ unteachable ’ and to design a workcard and organize lessons in a planned way . |
| 10 | She uses her twelve ( or eighteen ) arms and all available weapons to dispense and destroy evil , although she did not relish inflicting pain or death . |
| 11 | Her house was always freezing cold in winter , although she did not seem to notice it . |
| 12 | ( Although she did not seem so very surprised . ) |
| 13 | Although she did not seem to be listening , Dexter knew from experience that she would remember everything important he had told her . |
| 14 | Her eyelids flickered , although she did not train their stare upon her visitors . |
| 15 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 16 | Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs . |
| 17 | Alix , although she did not know it , was pregnant . |
| 18 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 19 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 20 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 21 | Although she did not look at Jake , she could feel he was watching her and that he knew what had stopped her dead in her tracks . |
| 22 | But although she did not deny it she knew nothing . |
| 23 | Although she did not deny that he was handsome and in many ways attractive , she could not envisage herself in an intimate relationship with him . |
| 24 | Grainne stood very still , although she did not close her eyes , for to do so in here , with a creature , a something that was watching from the shadowy corners and grinning and copying her every move , was not to be thought of . |
| 25 | She enjoyed their company , although she did not read their books as closely as they might have wished , for she had a strong and idiosyncratic sense of history , particularly of the Stuart period ( like my grandfather , she was a descendant of Charles II , in her case from Nell Gwyn , in his from Lucy Walter ) . |
| 26 | Brenda could n't manage a smile , but she shut her lips tight to keep herself from crying — which the Brownie Guider noticed , although she did n't show that she had . |
| 27 | Although she did n't go to er but me dad did always you know believe in the Baptists . |
| 28 | She had even let Doc Threadneedle into her greymass to plug a few loops , although she did n't want too much done in there . |
| 29 | Although she did n't feel so badly about him . |
| 30 | Alison was a travel agent 's clerk , although she did n't express it to Nigel like that . |