Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 2 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 3 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 4 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 5 | With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re-establish in 1936 . |
| 6 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 7 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 8 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 9 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 10 | In reality , though , she 'd felt like one of the walking wounded . |
| 11 | As soon as she 'd got over one pregnancy she was in it again was n't she ? |
| 12 | She 'd lain for two days on the cellar floor . |
| 13 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 14 | As she prepared to leave for one of her foraging expeditions , Sycorax would poke up at her and hiss , ‘ Do n't let them see what you pick ! |
| 15 | She started to hop from one foot to the other . |
| 16 | She decided to wait until eleven o'clock , when the medical rounds were usually done . |
| 17 | She was carrying a bag of shopping that she kept moving from one hand to the other . |
| 18 | She learned to pray at two or three , and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven . |
| 19 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 20 | But anyway , with her mind , and I understand she did write at one time , she would have made an impression in some quarter or other . ’ |
| 21 | Miss Lister administered it herself , and during her life there continued the practice she had begun in 1817 of keeping a daily journal . |
| 22 | Hitherto dean of the faculty of foreign studies at Sophia University in Tokyo , she had served from 1976 to 1978 as a diplomat in Japan 's UN mission , and subsequently chaired the executive board of the UN Children 's Fund . |
| 23 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 24 | His wavy black hair curled behind his ears so thickly that she was reminded of an Ingres portrait of a nobleman she had seen in one of Miss Hatherby 's books . |
| 25 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 26 | She could go back to the Rosenblooms , to the big house outside Glasgow where she had lived as one of the family for twelve years . |
| 27 | After falling and hitting her head in Turner Village , where she had lived since 1945 , she was taken to the accident and emergency department at the general hospital . |
| 28 | The Cairo conference , which met in November-December 1943 and was attended by Roosevelt , Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek , agreed that the Pacific War must conclude with the expulsion of Japan from all parts of the empire she had accumulated since 1895 . |
| 29 | The collapse of EDC was a bitter blow to the European movement , made worse by the fact that in October , after a crisis which threatened to rend the Atlantic alliance apart , France accepted West German rearmament within NATO , the very thing she had rejected in 1950 . |
| 30 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |