Example sentences of "she [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Even now she goes pale thinking about it .
2 When Leith took time off from being absolutely furious with Naylor Massingham and his high-handed behaviour , though , she experienced odd moments of wanting to tell him openly that she was not , and never had been , romantically interested in his cousin .
3 A WOMAN was fined £231 with £30 costs yesterday after she admitted fraudulent use of a car tax disc .
4 She met political leaders in Bonn , walked through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin , met citizens in Leipzig , and attended a service of reconciliation in Dresden , which was destroyed by allied bombing on Feb. 13 , 1945 .
5 She cultivated lasting friendships through her correspondence , which mirrors the everyday circumstances in which the Lake poets worked , and she shared her brother 's widening circle of friends and visitors .
6 As lack of discipline at home had been found to be important to later sociopathy , she recommended improved discipline at school for such at-risk youngsters : a more vigorous role in preventing truancy , supervision for completion of assignments , controlled use of leisure time and so on .
7 She laid great stress on these little courtesies , the formal acts of politeness that women in their emancipated state seemed to be in danger of losing .
8 In her flat and comfortable lace-up shoes , she made good progress on her daily outing .
9 Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s .
10 At Duns Sheriff Court , Sheriff James Paterson warned 34-year-old Mary Warnock , of Stobswood , Duns , that unless she made substantial inroads to the total within 12 months , she would face a prison sentence .
11 She recalled the Italian prisoners-of-war in their unsoldierly uniforms who had worked on the estate for a time towards the end of the war ; she made civil mention of another of Leon 's countrymen who had sold ice-cream on Norwich market when she was a girl .
12 The most important of these was the Save the Children Fund ( SCF ) ; Nina Boyle went to the USSR in 1921 to work in an SCF famine-relief programme , she wrote articles for SCF publications , and she made frequent speeches as a representative of the organization .
13 She remained in Paris during World War I , though she made frequent trips to the Brittany coast , where she did profoundly moving drawings of children .
14 All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed .
15 I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users .
16 TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th .
17 But she made light work of polishing off the shopping at a supermarket near her West London home .
18 After what he 'd said she did n't dare turn the key in the lock , but she made short work of undressing .
19 It is thought she will face questioning about whether she made proper arrangements for Gemma to be looked after while she was away .
20 She made touching things for the children called mock devil's-food-cakes , concocted out of cocoa , golden syrup , carrots and soya flour .
21 She made numerous complaints to her manager , who happened to be male , what did he do ?
22 She made full answers to all of them .
23 I could watch her face as she made repeated revisions of her assessments of me of only a few moments before .
24 That is extremely confusing for her , cause she has on her computer , she has various versions named in two , unless she destroys previous versions of M2 when she does this one Well she should she should overtype the correct one Which is n't what we did with M1
25 One is that the not guilty verdict was brought on the understanding that she sought medical help in a psychiatric hospital , and that poor Jane finished her days in Broadmoor .
26 We were invited to Stuart Johnston 's retirement party in the English Department ( Stuart met us off the ship when we first arrived in NZ , in 1969 ) ; but Val did n't make the party as she tripped in a gutter and pulled her ankle ( she got free treatment for it from the doctor , thanks to NZ 's Accident Compensation scheme ! ) .
27 They ate well , but she got little thanks for it from the mistress of the hut .
28 She spooned extra sugar into her mug .
29 In 1889 she became general secretary of the Guild , which then had fifty-one branches and a membership of between 1,700 and 1,800 .
30 Anti-German feeling in World War I caused Louise Matthaei to leave the academic world in 1916 and in 1918 she became assistant editor to Leonard Woolf [ q.v. ] on the International Review .
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