Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 2 | Maybe life was too short to pass up the chance to experience the kind of volcanic passion she 'd felt with Roman last night … |
| 3 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 4 | Nevertheless she 'd put it round her neck and there it had stayed ever since while she 'd tried with scant success to forget the brief period of ecstasy she 'd shared with the man whose gift it had been . |
| 5 | She 'd smiled with gritted teeth . |
| 6 | I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them . |
| 7 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 8 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 9 | Tina herself was not a risk in this area because the man she had lived with longer than any other was paying her £50 a week for the children 's keep . |
| 10 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 11 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 12 | She had dressed with some care . |
| 13 | She had fallen with such a thud and her shoulder ached painfully where she 'd hit the ground . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was a bigger race , she was on a better horse , maybe she had ridden with more coolness than usual thanks to the emergency prescription of Dr Cy McCray . |
| 16 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 17 | Prince Philip asked if she had co-operated with royal writer Andrew Morton as he prepared his best-seller Diana : Her True Story . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 20 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 21 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 22 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 23 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 24 | She had dealt with enough crisis situations that she was very slow to panic , but she realised something else . |
| 25 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 26 | She had disappeared with Old Red into her duty-room and closed the door before I left Casualty . |
| 27 | Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace . |
| 28 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 29 | She had known with all her soul that she had made just the right decision . |
| 30 | She had slept with three men in her life . |