Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman seemed not to hear the children , yet on leaving The Courts to pass through another narrow alleyway , she bitterly emitted one word : ‘ Scum ! ’ |
| 2 | She badly needed another drink but Maxim had n't finished his first yet . |
| 3 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 4 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 5 | She personally recruited university-trained teachers , who were prepared not only to provide their services free but also to participate in the social life of the college . |
| 6 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 7 | And the case springs from a fake painting which Mrs Marcos claimed was a Michelangelo and for which she apparently paid Bellini $3.5 million in 1983 . |
| 8 | She especially loved any opportunity to contradict those interviewers who assumed that , as the company which bore her name was so successful , she must be an ardent feminist . |
| 9 | Then she pointedly spent several minutes talking to him . |
| 10 | Another case study of an elderly lady in poor health who slept very little , by Ray Meddis and associates , found that her sleep was light and fitful and , over a period of a week , she only achieved one night 's proper sleep . |
| 11 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 12 | Well because I was in the office I got a pound a week , you see , and the , do you know the Manageress there who , she was the Manageress then sorry , I 've got a photograph and she said that when she was Manageress at Colchester and she only got fifteen shillings a week |
| 13 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
| 14 | This last results she only got one pass . |
| 15 | Again she only lasted three months but for once it was n't her fault . |
| 16 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 17 | She only purchased unpackaged products , which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag . |
| 18 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |
| 19 | She only had two days left , and the thought of nothing after that made her shiver with dread . |
| 20 | She only had two weeks from her free time . |
| 21 | Oh she had to buy five presents and she only had two kids . |
| 22 | She only had one cow , it was all she could afford , but it provided enough milk to go with the porridge in the morning and the potatoes at other meals . |
| 23 | She only had one stick in them days — seven years back , I reckon . |
| 24 | She only had four jackpots in her pocket . |
| 25 | She pushed it into the slot and dialled , dismayed to see she only had six units left . |
| 26 | I watched and held my breath , but to my relief she only brought one lump out of her bag , and that the smallest of the two , which she gave to me and I put it quickly into my cart . |
| 27 | She only mentioned one place after they 'd gone underground and that was where Gustav got married : Sangerhausen . |
| 28 | Dexter noticed his boss did not suggest Lancaster address her by her Christian name in return : she only encouraged such informality from the victims of crime rather than its possible perpetrators . |
| 29 | Whether it was because she knew she was my baby and did not like being with ward Sister , I shall not know , but she only gained two ounces the first week . |
| 30 | She only weighed three pounds . |