Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 2 | She left when she got adopted as Conservative candidate for Newbury , so he is not without erm competent female advice , and some would say perhaps they have more power than the having a woman colleague in the cabinet . |
| 3 | She got rid of that nonsense somewhere down the way before she came to me . |
| 4 | When she woke in the morning , she felt a profound reluctance to meet any of the family in case she got drawn into any more dramas . |
| 5 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 6 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 7 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 8 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 9 | It was a shaky whisper against his shoulder , and then she ceased to think at all , simply shut her eyes and let the hot , sweet river of desire flow unchecked through her veins and her limbs and her bloodstream . |
| 10 | With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re-establish in 1936 . |
| 11 | There was no gentleness like Lisa 's fierce love ; and she tried to respond to that while another darker voice called her to unconsciousness and silence . |
| 12 | ‘ No … ! ’ she tried to say against that forceful mouth , but he either did n't hear , or did n't want to hear . |
| 13 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 14 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 15 | She tried to concentrate on that particular pain . |
| 16 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 17 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 18 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 19 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 20 | Adverbial clauses she subdivided according to functional relationship ( time and causal , for instance ) — the categories will be familiar to anyone nurtured in the traditional approach to clause analysis ! |
| 21 | She 'd argued about that , too . |
| 22 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 23 | He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter . |
| 24 | Tammuz made hir wait until SHe 'd wriggled through all the tables to the door . |
| 25 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 26 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 27 | There was a long pause while she cleared the bed of her things , and she was aware of his eyes on her every movement as he checked over the items she 'd packed for any signs of decadence . |
| 28 | She 'd gone through all the usual phases : rock fan magazines , writing to film stars , sometimes getting back a photo with a printed signature , usually not . |
| 29 | But my Edna could n't get over the fact that sh she 'd gone through all that |
| 30 | She I I mean she were brigadier and she 'd gone through all her life |