Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lisped over the telephone , ’ Congratulations , daddy , on being elected to the national executing committee of the Labour party ’ . |
| 2 | She skidded to a halt , threw her leg over the saddle as though dismounting from a charger , and began to harangue Hugh in words he did n't understand . |
| 3 | ‘ That was n't fair ! ’ she laughed as she skidded to a halt in the yard . |
| 4 | She was a bonny young 'un , right enough , and from a bonny mother , from what she had glimpsed of that lass as she skidded down the road with the polis after her . |
| 5 | ‘ You met her here , did n't you ? ’ she whispered with a stab of insight . |
| 6 | ‘ Lincolnshire , really , though we live in London now , ’ she whispered into the darkness . |
| 7 | ‘ Hosanna , ’ she whispered into the street . |
| 8 | ‘ Goodbye , my love , ’ she whispered into the silence . |
| 9 | " La monasterie " she whispered across the aisle , " ce n'est pas belle . " |
| 10 | ‘ It 's all right ’ she whispered under the noise , and he settled down again on his side with his back to her . |
| 11 | ‘ I love you , ’ she whispered under the din of other people 's exclamations about the phenomenal machine . |
| 12 | Would you please be my friend ? ’ she whispered to the robin . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not like … ’ she whispered in a voice so quiet that it brought both of them lower in their cages to get nearer to her , the argument between them forgotten , ‘ … |
| 14 | ‘ I — I do n't know what you 're talking about , ’ she whispered after a moment . |
| 15 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 16 | Without her I would n't be here , ’ she admitted at the time . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ she admitted in a whisper . |
| 18 | Banned from seeing her six-month-old baby after being charged with assaulting the child in her cot at a London hospital , yesterday she failed in a bid to win supervised access . |
| 19 | Going into the hall , she flung on a coat , pocketed the keys lying on the silver salver , and let herself out into the night . |
| 20 | At first , she felt bereft , because all her friends were working and the people she met during the day were a generation older . |
| 21 | Most of the daughters ( except Rose , who lost an eye ) soon married , but Minnie 's marriage to Abe Greenbaum came to an abrupt end when she did a ‘ bunk with Claud ’ — a doctor she met on a visit to London . |
| 22 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 23 | Liz Scott-Gibson , who is now director of sign language services for the BDA , subsequently went to Kensington Palace to teach the Princess ; and on a later visit , to a school in Durham , Diana surprised everyone by being able to communicate to the deaf people she met without an interpreter . |
| 24 | Her glance slid over the cube she held , seeing it as an object , a thing she met with every day . |
| 25 | Taking it back to the post office herself and explaining the circumstances she met with every kind of difficulty about the redirection and was compelled to pay out of her own pocket to have it seen to . |
| 26 | For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage . |
| 27 | No matter who she met in the future , that walk in the lemon-scented night with him would be one part of her she would never share with anyone . |
| 28 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 29 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 30 | She read about the Battle of Britain ; and it was n't any longer an old man 's war , dear to her father 's heart , and a cause , in earlier days , of much laughter and secret nods and winks between she and her brother . |