Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair and clothing saturated , she fought desperately to keep control . |
| 2 | After being given clearance to land , Miranda , following her instructor 's directions , started her approach ; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold — the point just before she intended to touch down . |
| 3 | She demonstrated how to cook goat chops . |
| 4 | She darted over to embrace Dot so tightly that she could n't breathe . |
| 5 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 6 | Fortunately the Aer Lingus 737 had delivered her from Heathrow in less than an hour , so she 'd barely had time to become bored . |
| 7 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 8 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |
| 9 | She 'd also had time to castigate herself for meekly following him inside . |
| 10 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 11 | She 'd just started school . |
| 12 | And it was her second car that she 'd ever had sort of thing . |
| 13 | The back of her hand was pressed violently to her mouth , she dimly realised , and she was biting her knuckle so hard that she 'd almost drawn blood . |
| 14 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 15 | Something , his father was a shepherd , his mother actually did bed and breakfast , she was on television about five years ago , she 'd actually got electricity I think it was |
| 16 | She 'd never seen Ace showing the slightest sign of domesticity in either his London flat or the Monaco apartment . |
| 17 | She 'd never felt jealousy before … |
| 18 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 19 | She 'd never experienced crime until 6 weeks ago when a young woman kept her talking in the garden while her accomplice rifled her home . |
| 20 | SHe 'd never begged help off anyone before — had n't needed to . |
| 21 | She 'd never had cause to fear a man , but now she felt oddly threatened . |
| 22 | She 'd always felt contentment then , just as she did now . |
| 23 | Her perception of physics as a discipline is one that is about ideas and concepts ; she said that she 'd always found physics much more ‘ dynamic ’ than ‘ static ’ subjects like chemistry and geography . |
| 24 | She may have acted impetuously , but she 'd intended no malice , and she 'd always had Kirsty 's best interests at heart . |
| 25 | She looked at his imploring face , and felt a stab of guilt , that he was right , that she 'd better take care … . |
| 26 | Her hair was messed up as if she 'd come straight from bed , and her cheeks despite the coolness of the day were flushed as if she 'd recently made love . |
| 27 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 28 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |
| 29 | In San Pietro she drove fast to avoid abuse , missed the road by the police station and had to do a U-turn to obey her directions . |
| 30 | She came back looking cross . |