Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted a challenging look at Claudia . |
| 2 | Looking at them , she experienced a curious sense of exclusion ; she wondered who the woman was ; she wondered how well Giles knew her . |
| 3 | She experienced a strong feeling of déjà vu , as if she 'd seen him before , as if she knew him . |
| 4 | As Louise moved away she experienced a powerful urge to grab the massager and tug it close to her secret places again but she did not dare . |
| 5 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 6 | Wandering around looking at the different displays , she experienced a strange sensation of being drawn towards something . |
| 7 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |
| 8 | Alice 's father , a naturalized British subject since 1852 , indulged his wanderlust during Alice 's first fifteen years , and thus she experienced a constant change of scene and sound , living in New Zealand , Mexico , the United States , and Europe , until the family settled in Tonbridge in 1874 . |
| 9 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 10 | She flung a petrified look back at his mother . |
| 11 | ‘ And I suppose that with your superior knowledge you 've worked out that this — scene of devastation — ’ she flung a careless hand in the general direction of the office ‘ — is all down to me . |
| 12 | Eileen joined with them but before long she met a young man and started courting so dropped the dances . |
| 13 | In the village where Ng Mui eventually settled , she met a young girl named Yim Wing Chun , to whom she taught her system . |
| 14 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ said Lady Furness , ‘ a few months later she met a fine man called Ernest Simpson . |
| 16 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not surprising she met an early grave , she 's smoked forty a day ever since I 've known her and that 's thirty years , ’ and , ‘ What do you expect , smoking all her life — God rest her soul , ’ are common judgements made by those left behind . |
| 18 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 19 | But the alternative of returning to the hall , and traversing its crowded sixty-foot length to gain the opposite staircase leading to the upper storey , where she shared a tiny chamber with Adele and two of Matilda 's ladies , was just as unappealing . |
| 20 | She expected a loud shout of . |
| 21 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |
| 22 | When Jo Spence began to experiment with phototherapy in the early 1980s , she led a radical departure in women 's photography from campaigning reportage to narratives of personal history and self image . |
| 23 | She led a good life . |
| 24 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
| 25 | The network of health and social work support she had enjoyed fell away , but she led a full life and drove her own car , though she still lived with her parents . |
| 26 | She turned back to her hostess to confide , ‘ My brother 's living in India , ’ and quickly , before anyone could make a meal of that , she laid a possessive hand on Naylor 's and queried , ‘ Did you never think of entering the wine-importing business , darling ? ’ |
| 27 | Police and officials cordoned off corridors leading to the courtroom while she made a three-minute appearance . |
| 28 | She made a studied gesture of looking at her watch . |
| 29 | She made a hollow laugh and flicked some more ash into the lager can . |
| 30 | She made a hollow sound . |