Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't know why she gets played , she got to play the leading role ? |
| 8 | Her back shrieked , and when she bent to serve the late-night customers with their breath of beer and Cinzano , her head swam . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She helped to get the 90 workers reinstated that year . |
| 11 | In 1921 she helped to found the International Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 12 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 15 | What she needed was to sleep , and she tried to suppress the great mountain of self-pity that threatened to swamp her . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | She tried to stifle the insidious army of questions tentatively beginning to attack her . |
| 18 | She tried to dismiss the odd feeling of anticlimax she was experiencing . |
| 19 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 20 | She tried to remember the little he had said about Suvarov , but all she could think of was that without him neither she nor Anthony would have met David . |
| 21 | Topaz stamped her foot , beside herself with fury as she tried to defend the dead woman whose legacy she had to bear . |
| 22 | She tried to push the painful memories of her young companions ’ deaths to the back of her mind . |
| 23 | Intent on trying not to forget what had brought her marching into his room , she tried to stoke the fading embers of her rage . |
| 24 | She tried to say the accustomed words |
| 25 | She tried to visualise the silhouetted figures on Harriet 's blind . |
| 26 | Gritting her teeth , she tried to examine the hurt , but Benedict was before her , throwing away the stick and gently taking the dog 's paw in his hands . |
| 27 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 28 | She tried to reconstruct the physical Peter Datchett : tall , thin , black hair that tended to flop forwards , a mole on one cheek . |
| 29 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 30 | Grimma 's forehead wrinkled as she tried to read the smaller words on the back . |