Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said she 'd done more damage with coughing than she had anything |
| 2 | She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work . |
| 3 | Perhaps she 'd stayed behind to enjoy her grandchildren . |
| 4 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 5 | It was a nasty shock therefore to be stopped by yet another dramatically good-looking girl in a vivid scarlet dress whom she 'd noticed earlier ignoring her companion , her whole attention focused on Ace . |
| 6 | Oh , it was true that Dad and Charles had joined forces with Lucy in a deafening chorus of encouragement , to such a degree that she 'd felt almost piqued by their eagerness to be rid of her . |
| 7 | At that point she 'd had yet to meet its owner . |
| 8 | She 'd worked hard to achieve it . |
| 9 | Collecting the ladder from the shed , she searched around for the claw hammer she 'd used before to slot the gutter back under the tiles . |
| 10 | She 'd always known she possessed a temper , of course ; but , after one horribly painful childhood incident that was still burned into her memory like a scar , she 'd fought hard to master it , refusing ever again to let anger get the better of her . |
| 11 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 12 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |
| 13 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 14 | What she saw mirrored there threw her into a panic . |
| 15 | Walking forward , face scarlet , legs turned to jelly and arms stiff and awkward , she felt like a marionette , but by the time she had shown the third model , ‘ Wicked Lady ’ , she had begun almost to enjoy herself . |
| 16 | She had saved enough to buy a length of material in the market , but by the time she had enough money from her wages to pay a dressmaker , the summer would be over . |
| 17 | She had planned now to tell him that he was the one who was thick ; that he had fallen into her trap ; that she , Gazzer , and Bella knew all about him and what he had done . |
| 18 | Babies she had seen before had fat fleshy faces that spread from a central dummy . |
| 19 | She had decided anyway to leave the stage . |
| 20 | When she reached her own room , she had decided never to tell him her great secret . |
| 21 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 22 | And yet the woman she had met earlier did n't look bitter . |
| 23 | It was like nothing she had ever experienced before — she had always been aware she had the capacity for passion , but it was an element of her own make-up she had kept sternly suppressed , her mind refusing to give in to the demands of a young , healthy body . |
| 24 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 25 | She had become increasingly alienated from her mother and they were rowing a great deal . |
| 26 | She realised that she had become increasingly frustrated and dissatisfied with her life with Nicky … maybe even with Surrey … perhaps even with Maison de Levantière . |
| 27 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 28 | The depute fiscal , Brian Crookshanks , told the court that staff at the stables had noticed early last year she had become more withdrawn and was putting on weight . |
| 29 | ( My mother left South Africa and went to Lesotho when Lesotho became independent because she had become really depressed with South Africa and she thought she would find a niche and peace there . ) |
| 30 | She had become so attuned to the seisms of his feelings she could see that he wanted to hit her . |