Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 2 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 3 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 4 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 5 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 6 | " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz . |
| 7 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 8 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 9 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 10 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 11 | She seemed calm enough but the fit she had thrown on first wakening was fresh in his mind . |