Example sentences of "and she [vb past] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 2 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 3 | Eva was never afraid to speak her mind , and she had an uncanny knack of putting her finger right on a problem , much to some people 's discomfiture . |
| 4 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 5 | It was n't fair that your grandmother left her fortune to him instead of sharing it with you just because he 's a man and she had an old-fashioned prejudice that women should n't own money . |
| 6 | She had accepted his invitation under false pretences , and that was deception — and she had an instinctive feeling that Ven was a man who would abhor deception — and would take her apart if he ever found out . |
| 7 | And she had an incoherent sense that he and she together were being pushed in squares of black-and-white across the game board , and she did n't want to comply with the games masters by speaking aloud , let alone complaining , of the antagonisms they orchestrated . |
| 8 | Charlotte replied that she was going to Wiltham and she had an important interview . |
| 9 | The high spirits surrounding her were infectious and she had an insane desire to giggle . |
| 10 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 11 | They had always been careful hands , and she sensed an extra reverence in them now . |
| 12 | An only child , all her relatives and close friends in Baldersdale had either died or moved away , and she became an abandoned person in a mostly abandoned dale . |
| 13 | The window was crammed with sweets in boxes and glass jars and she kept an amazing selection . |
| 14 | She had a lot of long red hair and she wore an expensive blue dress . |
| 15 | The taxi driver 's voice cut into her thoughts , and she managed an absent-minded smile . |
| 16 | Visiting the scene of the crash on Jan. 5 , Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said that the disaster might have been the result of a " well calculated scheme " , and she ordered an immediate judicial inquiry . |
| 17 | ‘ You miss them , do n't you ? ’ he asked gently , and she gave an unhappy little nod . |
| 18 | It was even hotter than she expected , and she gave an involuntary yelp . |
| 19 | She tried to short-circuit the impact on her senses , but there was a blow like a mule-kick to her stomach and she gave an involuntary gasp . |
| 20 | She tried to grin back at him , but suddenly , unaccountably , her teeth were chattering and she gave an enormous , involuntary shudder . |
| 21 | Modigliani did not mention Beatrice ; it seems likely that Eugenia never heard about the affair from him , and she remained an unintegrated part of his life . |
| 22 | And she proved an excellent chess player . |