Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 2 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 3 | He was the enemy , and at least this way she got to score some points ! |
| 4 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 5 | Travelling on a mission trip sponsored by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church , she helped distribute 35,000 Bibles in Moscow and attended church services . |
| 6 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
| 7 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 8 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 9 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 10 | She woke to find four men by her bed , who beat and knifed her . |
| 11 | she 'd done Russian studies and management or something |
| 12 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 13 | She 'd tolerated two sessions already , and even got a bit of a kick out of them . |
| 14 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 15 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
| 16 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 17 | She 'd seen some posters in the town and was curious . |
| 18 | I mean I remembered some of it , I , I remember hearing something that she 'd given some bits downstairs |
| 19 | However , before she 'd gone many yards she recollected herself and turned to the bystanders . |
| 20 | The place was too full of memories ; like the day she 'd discovered most kids had mothers , not just a Bran . |
| 21 | You always knew when a child was lying , by the light in the child 's eyes , as she 'd discovered twenty-seven years ago with her own Winnie . |
| 22 | She 'd met arrogant men before , but never one quite like him . |
| 23 | She 'd suffered enough traumas and indignities already , she thought grimly . |
| 24 | Already , she 'd heard all kinds of rustlings and scufflings from the floor above . |
| 25 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 26 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 27 | She 'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture , and of prisoners who were never seen again . |
| 28 | Rather naïvely , she 'd imagined most flights would be heading for the summer sun . |
| 29 | She 'd lost two babies before they had me . |
| 30 | I mean it it sounds stupid , but a person I knew , she was about as stupid as i was as naive as I was , because er she was pregnant , her husband was n't away but she 'd got how many , five , four children , she 'd lost three children and she 'd got , then she had four , and then she found herself pregnant again . |