Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 2 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 3 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
| 4 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
| 5 | But when they discovered she planned to marry fellow student Willie Armour , they gave the prize to a young man in the year below . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister herself had reaffirmed her commitment to the " founding principles " of the service in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 1982 as she sought to allay public suspicion that the health service might not be safe in her hands . |
| 7 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
| 8 | She agreed to undergo corrective surgery but the result disabled her further . |
| 9 | He was the enemy , and at least this way she got to score some points ! |
| 10 | I know which , I know she got married last year . |
| 11 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 12 | She bent to knock some snow from her bindings . |
| 13 | Travelling on a mission trip sponsored by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church , she helped distribute 35,000 Bibles in Moscow and attended church services . |
| 14 | At one board meeting she proposed introducing padded coat hangers ‘ but that was never going to turn our fortunes ’ , according to John James . |
| 15 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
| 16 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
| 17 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
| 18 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 19 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 20 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 21 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 22 | To that end , she tried to keep alive Cissie 's love for her brother , although it was proving more and more difficult as the girl frequently pointed out , ‘ He ai n't the same , Beth . |
| 23 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 24 | Following the Reverend Cotton to Boston , Massachusetts , in the ‘ Griffin ’ , after becoming a Cottonian Puritan , she tried to change religious opinion in the colony . |
| 25 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 26 | She could not tell the human who she was , but she remembered the feeling of affinity ; she tried to indicate that affinity , a finger pointed to holly and to human flesh , but the blank look remained in that fur-wrapped , pale-faced Tallis . |
| 27 | Here she stopped to watch old Twomey the butler shaving himself with a cut-throat razor . |
| 28 | She woke to find four men by her bed , who beat and knifed her . |
| 29 | Whatever , she 'd ruined all chance of that now , Fabia realised that . |
| 30 | she 'd done Russian studies and management or something |