Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must 've left her statement , walked over to her car and she checked the car before she checked the four kids . |
| 2 | She got the 7.15 bus , feeling an anxious as a mother who is n't home in time for when her little boy comes back from school . |
| 3 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 4 | When she asked the 56 children in the study who they would go to if worried about something , they chose their mother ; not one said they would go to their father . |
| 5 | But she made it immediately clear that she regarded the two policemen as being of a social order little higher than the servants . |
| 6 | She caught the seven-forty-five bus . " |
| 7 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 8 | She found the three others standing disconsolately between the jagged stones . |
| 9 | Then she roused the two children , urging them to be quiet , and to quickly wash , dress , and eat a bowl of cornflakes . |
| 10 | When Sam flopped as she hosted the 1989 Brit pop awards Pat was her shoulder to cry on . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever the uncertainties the last few weeks may have brought I want you to be certain of this — our work together will continue unchanged , ’ she told the 40 charities of which she is patron . |
| 12 | She handed the two pieces over , and O'Connor began to read them rapidly , looking up at her occasionally while he did so . |
| 13 | She grew more and more tired and depressed as she walked the fifteen miles back to Flintcomb-Ash , where only hard work awaited her . |
| 14 | She heard the two men come down the stairs and go into the kitchen . |
| 15 | ‘ She heard the three dogs barking , but before she went to see what was up , the phone rang . |
| 16 | She touched the .22 Pathfinder for reassurance as she removed the sheet . |
| 17 | She bit down hard on her lip as she watched the four girls . |
| 18 | ‘ And the twins are so sweet , ’ she added , giving an almost envious sigh as she watched the two children , each with her own brown paper bag , busy feeding stale bread to the ducks . |
| 19 | Even naked , Leo did n't at all seem at a disadvantage , and , as she watched the two men , she finally and forever dispelled any lingering feeling she might have had for Ryan . |
| 20 | Behind the closed door , she pulled the two bills from her pocket , and lying on the bed , smoothed out the wrinkles . |
| 21 | When she lost the 1977 election because of the ‘ emergency ’ imposed in 1975–77 , some party bosses decided to kick her while she was down . |
| 22 | It was with great difficulty that she persuaded the two dogs into the rear of the van , and they barked their protest all the way back to the surgery . |
| 23 | Many of these facts would have been known to Eva as she took the four day journey by train from Cape Town to land-locked Rhodesia . |
| 24 | She took the two halves of the letter away , tore them in fragments , and burned them in her grate . |
| 25 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 26 | My mother said she thought the two qualities went together and Lili said they did n't : not necessarily , and in many cases they were mutually exclusive . |
| 27 | She strangled the two girls , hid their bodies and then played the distraught mother making impassioned pleas for the return of her ‘ abducted ’ children . |
| 28 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 29 | Urquhart 's face lengthened as she related the two episodes . |
| 30 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |