Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 2 | But how come she got invited by the Reagans … ? |
| 3 | The thought was distasteful but it continued to play on her mind as she got dressed in a pair of jeans and a flowered silk shirt . |
| 4 | ‘ So she got rid of every last one ? ’ |
| 5 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 6 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 7 | And erm at their wedding reception , they gave us erm , a trad local bottle of wine from the bar , erm , she got married in a bar and they , apparently they 've got vineyards there . |
| 8 | When she got married in a red wedding dress well oh dear me . |
| 9 | She became frightened by the effects . |
| 10 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 11 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 12 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 13 | Still staring at him , she became distracted by the dark hair that curled damply across his forehead , at the almost delicate arch of his eyebrows , the aquiline nose , the beautiful mouth , and then back to the bright , amused mockery in his blue , blue eyes . |
| 14 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 15 | Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue . |
| 16 | During and after World War I , she became associated with the Friends ' War Victims Relief Committee . |
| 17 | Miss Paula McCloskey , 26 , also injured her other leg when she became entangled in a mincing machine at the M U P factory in Richill , Co Armagh , in June , 1990 , the High Court in Belfast was told yesterday . |
| 18 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 19 | The breath she drew sounded like a sob . |
| 20 | As a child it had been embarrassing and as both teachers and playmates had looked askance at the familiarity she 'd reverted to the ubiquitous ‘ Mum ’ in their presence , but woe betide her if she had lapsed into this form of address in Margaret 's presence ! |
| 21 | All the careful protections she 'd built over the years ? |
| 22 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 23 | I was stuck there like a flying buttress between the floor and the pillar , and Jamie was still gibbering away to the girl about the sound a Triumph makes and the high-speed runs she 'd done up the side of Loch Lomond at night . |
| 24 | She 'd danced with a five of Palernians , all of them at once . |
| 25 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 26 | When Alison stepped back into the bedroom the slight drop in temperature immediately sought out the damp patches on her back and shoulders that she 'd missed with the towel . |
| 27 | Consequently she 'd prepared for the worst while hoping for the best . |
| 28 | She reached down to the floor where her candle stood , and when she 'd groped for the matches , which proved , as always , astonishingly difficult to locate , she lit it . |
| 29 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 30 | She 'd headed for the historical centre and spanned out , taking in the churches and palaces and the Lonja — the commodity exchange which housed , among other historical interests , the fine arts museum . |