Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 2 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 3 | When she failed to respond the French cutter opened fire with her bow chaser , hitting the superstructure of Sea Rover which by then was obviously making for the English coast . |
| 4 | She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her . |
| 5 | A young ‘ chic ’ girl placed herself in his empty place , fixing her eye liner in the fake sun light of the train , sighed as she looked around the carriage and then smiled to herself , there was obviously no competition so she failed to add an extra layer of lip-stick . |
| 6 | She failed to win a coveted Emmy award for her show Roseanne , America 's most-watched sitcom over the past three years . |
| 7 | She participated in the founding of the League of Nations and was on the Council , though she failed to get a racial equality clause inserted in the League 's charter . |
| 8 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 9 | Flinging it wide , she made to thrust the other woman from the house , only to be brought up short by the sight of two gentlemen standing at the other end of the long covered porch . |
| 10 | He smiled back at his mother in gratitude , but when she made to put a consoling arm around his shoulders he moved aside . |
| 11 | She needed distance between them as she fought to smother a treacherous joy that he should think her beautiful . |
| 12 | It 's hard to refuse a neighbour , as you have to go on living near them , so she agreed to lend the front lawns for a folklore festival , attended by ‘ ethnic ’ people with flowing skirts and hair . |
| 13 | With a certain reluctance she agreed to have a further examination , and tests were taken from the cervix and urethra . |
| 14 | She got to see a grizzly bear , skunks and chipmunks . |
| 15 | I do n't know why she gets played , she got to play the leading role ? |
| 16 | Her back shrieked , and when she bent to serve the late-night customers with their breath of beer and Cinzano , her head swam . |
| 17 | In 1915 she helped to organize an international women 's peace conference at The Hague , and until 1922 she acted as treasurer to the Women 's International League . |
| 18 | As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary . |
| 19 | She helped to get the 90 workers reinstated that year . |
| 20 | In Ethiopia she helped to found a Social Service Society and edited a monthly periodical , the Ethiopia Observer . |
| 21 | In 1921 she helped to found the International Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 22 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 23 | She heard the sound of a key turning in the lock and she sat , the hand holding her pen motionless above the paper , hardly breathing as she strained to catch the slightest of sounds from below . |
| 24 | Everyone else has gone home , except the poor wretches who are spending the hols at school , and we three are independent citizens whom she invited to spend an extra day . |
| 25 | She deliberately relaxed her limbs , looking steadily out of the open window , inhaling deeply as she tried to pinpoint an elusive scent . |
| 26 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 27 | What she needed was to sleep , and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her . |
| 28 | Flinging over in bed for the hundredth time , she tried to ignore the subtle , spreading ache in her stomach whenever she thought about Roman 's last hungrily demanding kiss … |
| 29 | She tried to stifle the insidious army of questions tentatively beginning to attack her . |
| 30 | She tried to dismiss the odd feeling of anticlimax she was experiencing . |