Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillian said she did n't want flowers , she did n't want to , to , they thought they were a waste of money and er she said , needed , she 'd wanted to send any , if you wanted to send any just to send it to , to nursing . |
| 2 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 3 | There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning . |
| 4 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 5 | She 'd had to buy all her guides Coca Cola from guiding funds , and send them home early in a hired bus in case they electrocuted themselves storming the gates of Eldercombe Manor in search of Dancer . |
| 6 | But he was n't , and during those few seconds while he 'd held her , she 'd had to admit this growing physical attraction she felt for him . |
| 7 | She 'd longed to hear more of it . |
| 8 | Every precaution that she 'd taken had proved to have been justified , but she doubted that she 'd managed to do any good . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd tried to get another position in hotel work , but nothing suitable been available . |
| 11 | And she had grown to like both her employers . |
| 12 | Her approach , in common with other innovators , was to get the very best from each and every child , using methods she had devised to achieve this goal . |
| 13 | At the words ‘ lovely pictures ’ , Amaranth remembered the ‘ spread ’ in Penthouse for which she had received –500 all that time ago . |
| 14 | She had decided to send this man to hell . |
| 15 | She had threatened to refuse this assignment if Mitch was not allowed here , and Felipe de Santis had accepted that . |
| 16 | Beth did not fool herself that it would be an easy thing to talk about what she had kept hidden all these years , but somehow she felt it would be a natural thing for her to confide in Cissie . |
| 17 | I could not imagine what she had done to deserve such a punishment , but she did not look ashamed or unhappy . |
| 18 | It was depressing looking through her clothes , and remembering the good times she had spent wearing some of these dresses and blouses . |
| 19 | She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman . |
| 20 | Leon Kennedy was standing in front of the fire where she had chosen to stand all that time ago at the beginning of the evening . |
| 21 | It was as if she had needed to do this for such a long , long time , but had only just realised it . |
| 22 | And beneath his skilful touch she had learned to disregard all her virginal inhibitions , to respond with wanton delight to their mutual passion . |
| 23 | Without thinking , she had promised to give any help that lay in her power . |
| 24 | She regretted that she had had to make this incoherent and disingenuous speech , partly because , as she went on , she had begun to listen to what she was saying and had realized that at some level her apprehensions about her family were justified . |
| 25 | Another and equally disconcerting presence had materialized there — one which she had attempted to diminish some time ago and send packing from her thoughts . |
| 26 | Since then she had tended to spend more time on her own in the flat and to stay with her parents at weekends . |
| 27 | She had resolved to put all such problems behind her . |
| 28 | She had come to recognize that silence , to smell it , almost . |
| 29 | In her years working with the Madam and then running her brothel she had come to know many , and she could usually spot their type . |
| 30 | She turned weakness into strength , for if she had tried to dismiss those accusations it would have made everything else she said suspect . |