Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
2 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
3 | yeah , I really was quite , quite upset about it , well I do n't blame you for it I would n't of minded if she 'd said this morning when I 'd asked her |
4 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
5 | Yet since she 'd met this man … |
6 | A year later , when the war had started and Gordon was already in the Navy , she 'd met this Peter in Bond Street and he 'd invited her to have a drink , reaching for her elbow . |
7 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
8 | One knitter I know who found she 'd created this situation ( inadvertently , she admitted ) solved the problem by knitting epaulettes . |
9 | ‘ He does seem very nice , ’ she 'd murmured this morning , her cheeks flushed after receiving a phone call from the doctor . |
10 | and and she said something about through her interest in North American Indians she 'd written this novel . |
11 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
12 | This was why she 'd chosen this profession . |
13 | She 'd rescued this woman — his aunt presumably — from her crashed car , and gone for help . |
14 | Well , she was n't leaving until she 'd sorted this muddle out . |
15 | Leading the way up to Terry 's room , fervently wishing she 'd left this madhouse when she 'd had the chance , Ellie stood back for Terry to enter first . |
16 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
17 | And she started to say this morning , oh you 're alright ! |
18 | Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind . |
19 | She did , she did come this morning , but er then had a message that she 'd gone home . |
20 | She appeared to digest this fact . |
21 | ‘ Respect for the dead , ’ he said , speaking to Carrie quite angrily , as if she had questioned this action . |
22 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
23 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
24 | She had seen this expression , this lack of expression , this closing in and down , on the face of the demon baby Ruth had once been . |
25 | She knew she had seen this man not just in the fog , but in the Rockingham public house . |
26 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
27 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |
28 | She had witnessed this event before . |
29 | She had kept this plant for many years and whenever we had light showers it was popped outside , a treatment that seemed to agree with it . |
30 | She had contacted this Mrs , would you like to do some planting ? |