Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 2 | It is believed she became caught between two rival gangs when violence erupted in the packed pub . |
| 3 | She 'd moved in two weeks earlier and always corrected the spelling of her name when it was written wrongly on the cleaning rotas . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | In reality , though , she 'd felt like one of the walking wounded . |
| 6 | As soon as she 'd got over one pregnancy she was in it again was n't she ? |
| 7 | She 'd lain for two days on the cellar floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Miss Lister administered it herself , and during her life there continued the practice she had begun in 1817 of keeping a daily journal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She thought that although she might one day be able to accept this stupid time hiccup , she would never ever come to terms with these brief glimpses into another world ; as though a door had opened and closed and that , for a moment , she had stood with one foot on either side of the threshold . |
| 19 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 20 | Beg at Duart gate to be let in , where she had ruled till two hours ago ? |
| 21 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 22 | Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared . |
| 23 | Whatever she had felt at nineteen , hatred was all that was left now , and hatred ought to impart strength . |
| 24 | She had survived for four years without him ; she did n't need him any more . |
| 25 | She told him nervously , one eye on Alexander , how she had stayed with one of Mme Grimaud 's innumerable cousins in Orange , had seen Racine 's Britannicus and a Cocteau ballet on the same subject in the Théâtre Antique . |
| 26 | She had retired in 1970 and married General Coutts , a " scholar and man of wonderful insight and perception " at the age of sixty five . |
| 27 | Perhaps one of the reasons she had gone from one man to another was that she could not bear to lose the excitement and flattery of the early stages of love . |
| 28 | As chairman of an access group representing the disabled in the town , she said she had written to two leading Labour councillors asking the Labour group to reject the recommendations . |
| 29 | But Navratilova knew she had been outplayed by Sukova , a player she had beaten in 25 of 29 earlier meetings . |
| 30 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |