Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 5 | ‘ It were a night like this when your mother went off , lass , and Jake near lost his mind when he knew she 'd gone for good . |
| 6 | There was n't a note , but he knew she 'd gone for good . |
| 7 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 8 | Maybe life was too short to pass up the chance to experience the kind of volcanic passion she 'd felt with Roman last night … |
| 9 | I was a little concerned though when the makers of ‘ MiniMag ’ asked what experience she 'd had of articulated vehicles and she replied , ‘ I 've spent my life driving Daddy 's horse-boxes . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That was why I wanted to speak to you — to find out , if during your time together , she 'd managed to corrupt you . ’ |
| 11 | She could never figure out why — she 'd rehearsed like crazy . |
| 12 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 13 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 14 | Nevertheless she 'd put it round her neck and there it had stayed ever since while she 'd tried with scant success to forget the brief period of ecstasy she 'd shared with the man whose gift it had been . |
| 15 | She 'd died from multiple stab wounds to the chest . |
| 16 | She 'd smiled with gritted teeth . |
| 17 | She came to speak on neonatal care at one of the obs and gynae meetings . |
| 18 | For a time it overcame her , and she seemed to drift in black depths . |
| 19 | The old lady spoke to me occasionally , but I noticed that she seemed to lapse into quiet moods . |
| 20 | And even so , she deserved to die for attempted treason . |
| 21 | She began speaking in rapid Italian , and Nicolo held up his hand . |
| 22 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |
| 23 | She began to cry in earnest and Tony , for the first time in his life , felt emotion for a working girl . |
| 24 | She started to cry with happy relief and Hepzibah put her mending aside and took her on to her lap as if she were Nick . |
| 25 | Through her efforts a mission hall was built , where she started to lecture on moral purity . |
| 26 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
| 27 | She loved to dress in expensive , eye-catching clothes and enjoyed reading romantic novels . |
| 28 | She loved to dress in vivid colours , garnished with necklaces , bracelets , rings and other glittering jewellery which was the envy of every other monarch in Europe . |
| 29 | After a moment , she managed to say through tight lips : ‘ Come out and visit us on Sunday . ’ |
| 30 | Towards the end , she had been moved to the big green bedroom in the West Tower , where she lay propped on high pillows , often delirious , each day weaker and weaker . |