Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She so wanted grandparents , that she appealed for a couple in the local paper to act as adopted granny and grandad . |
| 2 | The morning she saw him she suddenly felt butterflies in her stomach . |
| 3 | At least she only robbed bins and doorsteps , she did n't shoplift . |
| 4 | He realized that she already had fans , but the others were almost certainly complete wankers . |
| 5 | The workshops were never long enough , and she generously continued conversations well into the evening . |
| 6 | She just heard footsteps behind her , looked around , and there he was , standing behind her for all the world as though nothing between them had changed . |
| 7 | She just picked boxes up and delivered them . |
| 8 | She quickly made friends with the Reverend Esme Beswick , general secretary of the Joint Council for Anglo-Caribbean Churches . |
| 9 | She quickly organised tasks for the morning , and the nurses dispersed . |
| 10 | She had lots of rings , on both hands , and she always wore overalls . |
| 11 | Half of the trouble , of course , is that she always had nannies for her own children . |
| 12 | She always loved clothes and dressing-up , particularly in ‘ clinging , trailing chiffon things with miles of lace on them ’ . |
| 13 | She always preferred men in the house . |
| 14 | She always picked flowers for Uncle Walter , for instance . |
| 15 | She always gave orders with a smile , but the more she smiled the more quickly you acted . ’ |
| 16 | She usually spread marmites . |
| 17 | The first animal she ever made friends with was a pig : ‘ When I was small I always wanted to join a circus with a troupe of six Tamworth pigs . |
| 18 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 19 | Ignoring the whole question of invisibility , which is particularly oppressive to working-class lesbians and gays , she nonetheless raised matters which were on the minds of many other heterosexual politicians . |
| 20 | No binges , just occasional overeating 13 Felt she still had difficulties to address but was free from her eating problems |
| 21 | Even though her parents had moved to the States , she still had friends here , people she had grown up with . |
| 22 | But she had no time and could not rest : she still had places to visit . |
| 23 | The fad had n't lasted to her time , but she still remembered articles in the learned techno-archaeology journals . |
| 24 | In imagination Mrs. Pridmore followed her daughter as she pedalled vigorously on her way ; bumping down the rough farm track between Mr. Bowlem 's flat fields to Tenpenny Road , past old Mrs. Button 's cottage where , as a child , she had been given rice-cake and home-made lemonade , by Tenpenny Dyke where she still picked cowslips in summer , then a right turn into Chevisham Road and the straight two miles skirting Captain Massey 's land and into Chevisham village . |
| 25 | Davide was walking now down the street which intersected with the woman 's shop ; she still gave sheets of pink blotting paper for change , and a photograph of her son was pinned up on the shelf behind her till ; the news was that he was in the army , but Davide was ashamed to inquire what that report concealed . |
| 26 | Haunted by penury for the rest of her life , she habitually made notes over other people 's letters and wrote her own on the back of old laundry bills . |
| 27 | She later told friends that she was not convinced by this form of treatment . |
| 28 | She later met members of the orchestra , aged 10 to 13 . |
| 29 | ‘ She probably left notes . |
| 30 | Although subsequently in the 1910s and early 1920s , she furthered her experiments with abstraction in watercolour and oil , examples of which include the ‘ Evening Star ’ series ( 1917 ) and ‘ Blue and Green Music ’ ( 1919 ) , she also made paintings that were decidedly realistic in character , like ‘ Plums ’ ( 1920 ) , or semi-abstract , like ‘ Light Coming on the Plains II ’ ( 1917 ) . |