Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1945 she was tried in a Chinese military court as a traitor , but was acquitted when she admitted her Japanese nationality and described how politically naive she was . |
| 2 | When she met him one day in the forest , Narcissus said to her : ‘ I suppose you are yet another of these women who find me so very attractive . ’ |
| 3 | When she met him that evening and explained her predicament , he was happy to fall in with her plans . |
| 4 | A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her . |
| 5 | When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant , she had not been able to confide in them . |
| 6 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 7 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
| 8 | When she met her false lover in the dew . |
| 9 | He stared at her and as she met his shocked gaze she felt tears squeeze out over her lashes with hot , blinding intensity . |
| 10 | Just for a second she met his curious gaze then looked away , feeling her heart pounding in a way that made her feel sick . |
| 11 | She met his mocking gaze , noting that in spite of the typical little dig there was less malice than usual in his manner . |
| 12 | Chin high , she met his narrowed gaze with undisguised hostility . |
| 13 | Gina 's voice rose in amazement as , uncertain whether to be horrified or impressed , she met his smug expression . |
| 14 | Puzzled , she met his intense gaze through love-dazed eyes . |
| 15 | She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him was n't going to be easy . |
| 16 | Following her win in Birmingham , she revealed her two-year plan to add the World , European and Commonwealth crowns to her Olympic one-lap hurdles title . |
| 17 | As she read her right hand strayed up to her left breast . |
| 18 | With no Mrs Geary to guide her , she plunged her ambitious way through the exotics of the European Cook Book . |
| 19 | She shared her private life exclusively with women , notably with Mabel Veronica Batten , under whose influence she converted to Catholicism , and later with the sculptor Una Vincenzo , Lady Troubridge . |
| 20 | I think most fundamentally she transmitted her inner core of pride and I acquired from him both doggedness of purpose and the confidence to decide what was just and unjust in the world as I met it . |
| 21 | She swished her thick tail . |
| 22 | In exile she expected their first child , having left her husband in Russia ; he was later killed , and she suffered the blow of another death — her own child . |
| 23 | Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute . |
| 24 | Though they came out to attack her , she led her young right into the midst of their offspring before turning to flee , leaving the two broods mixed . |
| 25 | She led her new lodger to the closed door of Joe 's living-room and knocked . |
| 26 | She smelled his foul breath up close , and the stink of her own insides . |
| 27 | Walking to the door , Sabine wondered detachedly what the reaction would be if she voiced her unspoken thought aloud , but decided not to risk it . |
| 28 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 29 | A week later she made her first score from a dealer in Times Square . |
| 30 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |