Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She would go from eating little and missing meals to eating heavily at times when she experienced her sweet cravings . |
2 | In 1945 she was tried in a Chinese military court as a traitor , but was acquitted when she admitted her Japanese nationality and described how politically naive she was . |
3 | When she met him one day in the forest , Narcissus said to her : ‘ I suppose you are yet another of these women who find me so very attractive . ’ |
4 | When she met him that evening and explained her predicament , he was happy to fall in with her plans . |
5 | Robyn could tell the minute she met their curious glances . |
6 | A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her . |
7 | She renewed her make-up , pausing as she met her blue eyes in the mirror . |
8 | When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant , she had not been able to confide in them . |
9 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
10 | In October this seemingly unbeatable filly went to France for the Prix du Conseil Municipal , and here she met her first defeat , beaten two and a half lengths by the 66–1 outsider Presto . |
11 | When she met her false lover in the dew . |
12 | She met his blazing eyes and flinched , wishing he 'd yell . |
13 | Colour flared in her cheeks as she met his blazing eyes head on . |
14 | He stared at her and as she met his shocked gaze she felt tears squeeze out over her lashes with hot , blinding intensity . |
15 | Just for a second she met his curious gaze then looked away , feeling her heart pounding in a way that made her feel sick . |
16 | She met his mocking gaze , noting that in spite of the typical little dig there was less malice than usual in his manner . |
17 | Chin high , she met his narrowed gaze with undisguised hostility . |
18 | Gina 's voice rose in amazement as , uncertain whether to be horrified or impressed , she met his smug expression . |
19 | Puzzled , she met his intense gaze through love-dazed eyes . |
20 | She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him was n't going to be easy . |
21 | Her voice was as steady as a rock and she met his silvery-green eyes without flinching . |
22 | Following her win in Birmingham , she revealed her two-year plan to add the World , European and Commonwealth crowns to her Olympic one-lap hurdles title . |
23 | She stopped before she revealed her future plans . |
24 | She lowered her long-lashed eyes demurely . |
25 | As she read her right hand strayed up to her left breast . |
26 | Telling them to close their bibles , she read them two stories ; one about the beginnings of life , the other a warning on the dangers of immorality . |
27 | With no Mrs Geary to guide her , she plunged her ambitious way through the exotics of the European Cook Book . |
28 | She shared her private life exclusively with women , notably with Mabel Veronica Batten , under whose influence she converted to Catholicism , and later with the sculptor Una Vincenzo , Lady Troubridge . |
29 | I think most fundamentally she transmitted her inner core of pride and I acquired from him both doggedness of purpose and the confidence to decide what was just and unjust in the world as I met it . |
30 | She swished her thick tail . |